The Current BY ZAC DUNN Encapsulating the ocean’s motion Krill spilling into harbors Guarded by monolithic stone towers Driven skyward with roots of MAGMA Foothold upon the edge of the precipice So deep its boundless immensity only hungers To know more water and bones To nuzzle and rest upon the firmament Of decay and sublime KELVIN-like stasis Penetrating atoms to stand still As the UNIVERSE expands telescopically Removed 20,000 leagues of legendary Silence that reaches the pits of stomachs Churning in guts storming beaches As battlements volley hatred and ignorance The venom that spread all too Effortlessly upon the prick Systemically brokered to all the jokers Who sally forth speaking much too loud about NOTHING AT ALL Commanding the attention they seek screaming out One final SOS from the DEATH SUB That led them deeper and deeper To the place of stasis and entanglement Of greed, ambition, hubris to the mother and a will that knew Only its own curiosity so profoundly detached from the Magnitude of the endeavor Gilded in recycled carbon fiber splendor That we remember as the screams fade to silence and the Curtain slowly draws As the trawlers turn back to port and gaze upon NARWHALS for the first time Since even the saltiest can recall Their eyes briefly locking Only to slip back to the liquid that we Take so deeply for granted Yet will move mountains and seas of blood To spill (9:32 12/14/23) FOLLOW FOR MORE WORK: IG: @UZIEGO | TUMBLR: @WTFCRAIGSLISTNYC
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