A fish quickly swimming
in an endless abyss.
Silver scales glimmering
within the ethereal light.
Coming from everywhere
yet nowhere, diffused by
the feathery, soundless popping
of miniature bubbles.
Eyes bulging wildly
with each snap! of
its thin, wiry tail,
dancing out of reach,
tail twitching tauntingly,
ever elusive at the edge
of the corner of the eye.
Red eyes searching,
hunting, peering through
the thick gloom encasing
those silver scales.
Snap! The thin tail thrashes.
Silently, the red eyes follow
unblinkingly, thin bands
of ivory glowing crimson.
Snap! A thin trail
of bubbles flowing freely.
Snap!
A thin tric
dullish drudgery
insides all ug-l-y
spilling out split seams
pitch black and bubbling
sick carcass covering
brick-heart (beat)
mumbling
mostly in sane
inane
ornate mutterings
pitted & precious
half-blessed & breathless
have-not
half-knotted up
nodding off
lest this
daydream
of days seen
seems less dream
than real scenes
the rou-
tine of self
checklist
heart screams head
senseless