The Deep

A recurrence:

This and that handed-down couch
this and that failing screen

The beauty of the deep
a vast world we will never see.

A symmetry:

This and that
beginning and end.

Five years,
fifteen years:
a drop in the endless waters
an aberration of
biology, chance,
what passes by,
is appetizing.

What can be swallowed.


Here is the angler,
motionless,
waiting,
returning to nothing,

a stranger
lost at sea.

It has never been seen.