Praya dubia

by aderyn

Summary:

Detective, how to ascend this puzzle? (depths, sea monsters, bioluminescence, love.)
Remix of Professorfangirl's "In the Deep."

Notes:

• For professorfangirl (lizeckhart).
• Inspired by [Restricted Work] by professorfangirl (lizeckhart) (Log in to access.)

Wits on Tap 2015 fic-to-poetry remix challenge sounds up my street; may I try it?
For you, PFG, writer-with!

 

"Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under water, unapparent for the most part, and treacherously hidden beneath the loveliest tints of azure."--H. Melville

 

How detective, to ascend

this puzzle, mystery, depth

of sleep to solve, in layers, 

the mystery of death

siphosome by bell by colony

three by three, to feed,

defend, attack, rise to the dark

bioluminous; Praya dubia whale

of the siphonophores, blue blues,

praya, siphonophore; prayer, a thing

you do not believe in said

on your behalf; deep-sea

criminal, monster, come up, come

up; mind the bends, sink

or solve, sound depths,

detective, the rise through layers

of mind, seas sedimentary

of logic, love, body asleep

so not to fly apart, wash up

where your partner is death; your partner is light

conducted, filtered; of all the teeth

unmouthed, seen, stop there--

decide to live, blink and how, how,

blink and how (luciferase, that’s it,

key, catalyst, light-bringer,solver),

dawn-bright where you break,

sound surface, sky, eyes in kind—

the indigo that wakes.

Notes:

Praya dubia