today I walked across the ocean floor
the flora and the fauna were flat;
multi-limbed fish and flat eyeless worms,
nudged me, like a dreaming lover in the night
heaven’s light?...no..it was just too far down!
bathyscape deep: Witgenstein deep…really,
really, excrucitingly deep.
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