Octopus Eye
By Zac Dunn
Published Issue 128, August 2024
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
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Zac Dunn is a psycho-social mechanic, father, musician and dreamer. Check out his music and follow him on Twitter | Instagram | Tumblr.
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