On Jellyfish

Delicate pale lavender gauze in constant fluid motion,
Tantalizing and terrible.

Finely sheer and shimmery silken strands
                        Stream liquid translucence in watery lace -
Beautiful symmetry.

Floating and gracefully pulsing beneath -
Deep in a salty underground, suspended in dusky dark.
They cluster together, shining, with myriad tentacles adrift.

Cellular       primitive          beckoning…

Gossamer jellyfish thrive.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2007

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