Hush

[Generalkaos]

HUSH


Open-mouthed, the spirits of the deep await
vibrations through the silent sea. Cartographers
have imagined their bodies—swollen, ancient,
Sleek, scaled with bones and chitinous steel

Poseidon is an absence,
a great outward pressure
with tentacles;

His symbol is not a trident or a net
His symbol is not a trident or a net

Skeletons of aborted dolphins
eyeless, deformed,
wriggle and squeak across plazas
lost when ancient cities slid into the sea.
Slick, membranous flesh heaves against
drowned stone

Now, the earth:
a fissure
cold and more cold,
and even the blue whale prays.
Even the blue whale prays.

[blackaquea]

reminds me of the "scariest places on earth" on tv...