the Ocean is Dark and Blind and full of Secret Wet Voices ---

            in that stark

ensemble

venom night

switch

                            blazing heavenly

                          somnolent echo       

                          far off 

                          the tilt

            submarine metal

                     oceanic eyescope

                         closing black ink

                                    water quiet

                                                darkening 

                                                            mutable tentacle flesh sliding 

                                            along coarse    black rock

---   silent avenue underwater

(but we live for more than a movie screen memory)

                                                                        filter            the bag of dreams

                                                                        water

                                                water                                       the wet enveloping

                                                                                                                        nylon  

                                  secretive  drawing of a face creased with          

                                           concentration                on the 

                                                a cave inside 

                                bright with phosphorescent snakes

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   concentrate on

                                                                                                the dark velvet   

                                                                                                          recurrences

                                                                                                                                                                    more than anyone can -- handle

                                                                        alone --

Max Wolf Valerio

June 3rd- 2004

First Draft - 1:46 am. 

Final Sept. 10 - 2006