When light sticks inside bodies
The viscous imaginary
A protective sheath, a plastic coating, a waterfall
Orbital schema – an awkward grinding
Grey over buoyant grey, a rainbow scrape
When light sticks inside bodies
Bug jelly maths
Porifera make new hydras
Give Zeus the finger
A parthenogenetic hum
stuns the ocean floor
Leaves shoot duodenal refuse
A vein of cellular debris
But, to chop it –
A clutch of pearls through the stained glass
A pawing at the branches
When light is a family of bones
When light deviates
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