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An Ocean

find blue summer in the undulating
fans of the kelp forests’ 
kelly green
swirl aquamarine waters 
lemon tangs and 
silvery blue angelfish dart, 
dive disappear in a cloud 
of color near
fluffy white sand bottom

the jet black stingray floats 
like a kite 
ripples ruffles flips and fusses
stops abruptly to let the
sand grains settle over wings
burying all but two round pearly
black eyes
ever observant 
en garde 

sunny red and vivid yellow
clownfish mingle kiss and 
swish within the caressing
tentacles of the purple sea
anemones their symbiosis
on display 

lit by golden shafts of 
sunlight stabbing thirty and
forty feet angled through
the feathery kelp limbs

amber seahorses buck and rock
with the ocean waves 
and currents of deeper cooler
waters flowing like underwater
rivers through the warm 
buoyant waters of the
colorful kelp

Corals in colors carefully 
chosen by Poseidon for their
elements of smiles, giggles 
and warm hardy laughter

sea cucumbers decorate 
the sands surrounding 
the bases of the 
kelp as they reach stretching 
up to 300 feet to the 
tossed gyrus and 
sulcus of the ocean 
sea foam surface

Copyright © Joe Brazeau

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