Suited up like Astronauts
Set for starless black expanse
Undulating under rusty rugged rig
—-Blip—-
Down the ladder,
Slip beneath the liquid black
Where Opah bounce like mini-moons
—-Blip—-
See a shooting school of Oarfish
Orbit ‘round the coral rings
Of trenches carving craters in the deep
—-Blip—-
down
down
down
Until down can be seen no more
For down is all around
And up likewise disappears
As you fall below into the sky
Formed by briny blue bottom above.
Cosmos formed of plankton
Broken by meteors made of squids
Warmed by dim sun from the cracks in the floor
—-Blip—-
Forth from the vents
From the core of the Earth
Cetus emerges like a nova enraged
—-Blip—-
His constellation-scarred body
Sucks in all like a vortex
And rearranges this galaxy as chaotic aquatic
—-Blip—-
up
up
up
Expelled from space below the skies
A land where no man has gone before
And no man can go find in his dreams
Lost in the briny blue bottom beyond.
Morning's Early Dark 