Sylvia Plath

AQUATIC NOCTURNE

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Deep in liquid

turquoise slivers

of dilute light

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quiver in thin streaks

of bright tinfoil

on mobile jet:

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pale flounder

waver by

tilting silver:

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in the shallows

agile minnows

flicker gilt:

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grapeblue mussels

dilate lithe and

pliant valves:

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dull lunar globes

of bulbous jellyfish

glow milk green:

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eels twirl

in wily spirals

on elusive tails:

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ardroir lobsters

amble darkly olive

on shrewd claws:

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down where sound

comes blunt and wan

like the bronze tone

of a sunken gong.