by M. Stow11
clear-water’s...
and dense tangled weed, provoked and retaliating as one, minnows in swarm, zig zagging away;
from snappering sharp teeth, frenzied feeding on massed smaller shoal, turning rapidly, to vortex;
three-dimensional four-directional chance-reducing capture, moving into and out of the center the larger and older at the perimeter, smaller and younger in the centre;
any missing, un-chancing, abandoned.
Spiraling-upwards,
and along the social chase, into the darkened depths.
Flashing glinting in the envisioning light, unable to avoid the sudden jaw snapped, and snapping end;
left-behind the tired and injured, picked out of the edges.
To breath and feed again.
Expunge, seek and find, to reproduce and feed and grow,
continue on, not taking the risk, taking-the-risk,
that offspring may not turn-out, to model the successful pattern of the previous.
Before replicating again; or not.
Before being consumed, sinking back down,
to the sticky vegetable and decomposting depths;
in paddled wake, over crystalline clay and shale layer,
between suspended-thin veiled-vein clear atomic tissue-seam layered.
Over iron red rusty shallows, elongating globules, separated out, in the surrounding water.
Breast plate heart pumping, skeletal linked bony limbs,
separated ribbed stanchion,
bonded backbone vertebrae, fin and gill, girdle and limbs, and skulled head, braced and conjoined.
Layering sonar radar and visual mapped, correlating,
including, and spun on operating ribbon fibre muscle,
pushing-rod and drawn-back limbs.
Flexed-contracted and inflected, prior nervous-uncertainties,
replaced more confident-probability building, shared-correlations...
between sibling and species, syntactic-synaptic shared-recognition.
Faint heartbeat between outer and inner four-chambered muscle-wall;
in-voluntary contraction of striated, blood-saturated pumping fearful-excitement, pulsating fits and starts;
for good, or ill through living-tissue and muscle criss-crossed distributaries;
lined pumping non-return valve, to flow along thick walled high pressure artery, to be closed-off.
Power-pressure vein and capillary-delta draining.
Surging branching-estuaried, into muscle, and crystalline fingerbone,
spreading-toe delivery system tissue-depositing cellular, galvanizing potential-action.
Each-breath circulating-energy, to where it is called for, released and needed, to breath, feed, and reproduce.
To rest and sleep safely, in ever-ready partial aware-state,
through the response of the rest of body, repetitively re-building the-mechanism, amongst floating sac scaffold protective and constructed skull bone, jawless snapped up, and snappering tentacled cyclid electric-fish.
Along muscle line cartilage, skeletal ethanol lubricated-tendon,
loosely-strung together muscle and bone traversed,
live-electric spark; fueled, and waste exhausting,
reproducing form from flesh-compounded,
fluorescence persisting, over-layered,
muscle shelled and scaly rod and calcite-cone funneling receptor.
Relaying, stem-touch, torched onto light sensitive-stalk.
Erupting, pourous-pored skin-membrane.
Mouthing-antennae, radar and independently brain -linked.
Opening and closing, inflorescent opening-feeler light-seeking, hub-tipped, threaded webbed crystaline-horn,
on muscular-pad vein-fed whirring-seated, swiveling-calcite,
zinc and cuprous-oxidal, phosphate lensed fish eye.
Muscle squeezed into focus.
Receiving sticky light spray, shadow compounding and selecting out.
Relaying through skin slime bony, phosphatic light pressure sensitive, substrate lipid membrane layer.
Rising-out of the depths, incrementally folding reforming repeating,
repairing and variating combination, bound and rebound size and shape. Stirred out of rock cavern,
wall and sand and mud carpetted floor covering,
pushed out limbic ends, popped out, symmetrical radial vascular tubed feet, tipped with useful suckers.
Holding-onto, to slide along the hard edges.
Congealed pointed and sharpened tail-fin, tooth and claw, tacking muscle mouthing jaws and lips.
With the gums drawn back, lined with single and double and triple rooted, calcium enamelled ring.
Flat cobbled, and filed down fiercely toothed razor sharpened-rows.
Wrap-around shadows’ top-hardening, layering membranous plate.
Swimming turtle shell section, fish scales falling from the eyes from the golden-red and yellow, grey-blue sand,
newly opened turtle-fin flapping,
and immediately darting into the water in their droves...
Moving along internally assembling rodded, threaded connectively built;
funneling vortexing through the water, single sharp raised shark fin.
In-water ebbing and flowing in and out and flowing around at the edges.
Swelling static crackling heard through the elongated and subsumed space. Turning rapidly spinning helical filament hollow-filling simultaneous exploding, imploding again, and exploding...
processing and open-fast spun, neural-reset...memorific EarthCentre.
Pointing the way, splitting the subtle but shared difference.
Individual action chooses, choices, incomings and outgoings. To leave finally, perhaps to never return.
Pheromonal and geographical lessons,
imbued each fulfilling halveling, to find-our-way...
creating new pathways,
new connections, with functional help or hindrance, eventually to survive at all.
And the open Ocean vast-aquaria,
the wonder of being adrift passed,
in confident passive rolling, touching,
and turning-in unveiling luminescence.
As if gently exercising, gliding past and touching accidentally, vaguely unnoticing, attracting and alarming.
Moving toward or away, carefully-brushing past and effortlessly away. Sensing-urging, consuming and life-saving movement,
nurturing to preserve the few, leaving the many to fend for themselves.
With the chance that some will survive, to their next regeneration.
Glinting through a haze of liquid effervescence.
Being drawn upwards, towards the light, each swimmer needed to be aware; avoiding-collision,
with Other; by-accident, by-miscued degree,
of perceived mathematical or logical,
intentional-movement, anticipatory associative,
reflex and memory-generating,
guessing-at reactive-feedback, and learned-behaviour, aggressive and passive, submissive, or attacking,
in successful, or unsuccessful trial and error, survival;
living value, to trail, and to trial again.
Unable to dive deeper, or float higher.
Unable to experience the surface, or the deepest depths.
Existing in the water surrounding, ranging thermostatic pressure pumping, in-depth ranging, nothing else existing, beyond, except it would seem; mystery and oblivion, everything-else, stretching endlessly-away.
A surface tension looming, through floating bulbous weed and wrack;
seething algae and grey-brown moving mass,
reflecting the colours of the deepest-depth;
Beyond and above, in the distant gloom, the blazing vestiges of original luminous,
reflecting, sparklings through the finally retreating water’s...
A multitude of stars continued to shine,
emblazoned incandesce
nt blazing tail’s,
like glittering tadpoles, soared,
and fell.
Light crashed-through continuous damp-spray cooled nightime-air,
convecting with a conserved solar-heated circulate temperately...the murky-surface lurked,
loomed over by green brown turned purple above;
a harsh fading unfiltered orange yellow red sky brightened...
As the remote half-disc of moonlight, dipped, remained...
persisting glinting on the waters.
On land, separated split-drifting continental into cloud and rain, organic Oceanic-waters, in the roughly-hubristic periodic turning seasonal-changes, of the surrounding Sun and Moon and star filled Universe shimmering through; the upper surface, the-existence, undenying;
dominant sharing-offspring, ever seeking to reconjoin with another
feeding and raising, the better to continue...
Stilled and raging waters, beyond and between.
Across stretched patched panel, continuously moving sunlit colouring pieces.
Not-waiting for the final un-changing, dispelling erasing wipe out, reactive, responsive gameplay;
defending the accumulated moves, with intentions, of self, and other,
predicting, planning, risking the next.
With slower and longer predictable Solar and lunar,
oblong triangulating circularities.
Each of us, now, gently surface-treading water;
surfing-against sandy-dry landmass, underwater,
a torrential warming-wave slipped-through the caverned stalagmite and stalactite dripping waters...
a-cargo carrying passenger riding ridge, risen newly-rising sunlit plateau-plate,
soared audience galleried, out of the depths...
Risen,
rock stage-plate consuming continuously,
and impulsively centrifuging, accumulating capturing and recapturing,
other smaller active carrying mineral microspore flagellum-attached gearing, and directional-steering... motor-motion...
Each of Us; driving heat-compression, cellular-return,
flows cyclonic cylindrical vortex; pointed at one end,
the other-rounded-out...nucleate radiating
