Octopus Eye BY ZAC DUNN As WAVES break overhead And the tide swells up like The kettles call at dawn Gulls sing bright clips That slip over whitecaps and Fins that coalesce in obtuse Order and motion in chaos Spiraling out boundlessly upon the liquid Heath where a catfish wishes it could DREAM TOO OF A SKY ABOVE As the orb warms the surface and The eye dips into blindness So sublime in the wink It thinks not of anything But the next bite of KRILL of the breath of KHAN Who holds to the greatest Story ever told hidden Deep in the box at the bottom of all That we think we could ever Dream to KNOW Tentacles of LOVE clutch GEMS so the WAVES do not BREAK and take them out to SEA The heart of the LEVIATHAN Perched upon the wreck is always Clicking and ticking down the Moments that flow at a different rate In TIME and SPACE When the pull of GRAVITY And the insurmountable weight of the universe Of liquid pushing endlessly to implode But the mighty thing sleeps in slow drones That gives only the softest murmur as the old JUNK Slowly floats past the GYER of plastic and refuse To see but a glimpse of the slurry bubble from the Deep that breaks and takes back the Breathe from where it came OXYGEN-like LIGHT on the SEAFLOOR Is all but nonexistent The fish with oil in its bones knows this too But sleeps tight knowing only a JUNGLE AND NEVER A ZOO 5:01 AM HOD (desk) 7.2.23.0003 OGE IZU 314 FOLLOW FOR MORE — IG: @UZIEGO | TUMBLR: @SAVAGESNEVERSLEEPNYC ART BY ANASTASIA EMELIANOVA
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