Sea Wonders
¦¦¦¦¦¦¦ Sea, ¦¦¦ ¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦
¦¦¦¦¦ sand, pebbles,
¦¦¦¦¦¦ shells.
¦¦¦ ¦¦¦¦ ¦¦¦¦¦ ¦¦¦ ¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦
¦¦¦¦ ¦¦¦¦¦ ¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦
bubbles rising.
¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦
¦¦¦ slow-
motion ¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦
¦¦¦ fishery ¦¦¦¦¦¦ ¦¦¦
¦¦¦¦¦ ¦¦¦¦¦¦ ¦¦¦¦
collecting
plankton ¦¦¦¦¦¦ and fauna.
¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦ visible
sea ¦¦¦¦¦¦
sponge and kelpleaf.
Halicystus ¦¦¦ Sea Bottle
resembles emeralds
¦¦¦ ¦¦¦ ¦¦¦ ¦¦¦¦¦¦¦
¦¦¦¦ in the world.
Young sea horse
¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦ twenty
minutes old,
¦¦¦¦¦¦ ¦¦¦ ¦¦¦¦
¦¦¦¦ ¦¦¦¦ ¦¦¦¦¦¦
¦¦¦¦¦ ¦¦¦¦¦¦
¦¦¦ radiates on
¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦ ¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦
a comb of twenty
upright spines
and curls
its ¦¦¦¦¦ tail.
¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦ ¦¦¦¦¦¦¦
¦¦¦¦ ¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦ swims
backwards from the rock.
From The Collected Poems of Carl Rakosi. Copyright © 1986 by Callman Rawley.
(Blackout of The Lobster by Carl Rakosi)
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