κολυμβῶ – dive/swim/float
Head dunked in black water
read with white phosphorous
making fictions of the far rim
sentences lulled to lengths
of conceit skull-dragged by
an inebriated circus of fish.
Only bubbles ring out
noise, pinging like morse code
skimming through the undertow
of radiophonic whistles
sepia fins lapping like the end of pencils
drawing on a depth of plated paper
that reaches beds, the kelp
binding the spine of discarded
books submerged, content like sonar
this hair playing scales
mouth closed, cheeks bouyant
eyes dusted-saline
with a shake of irises
her amaneunis of arcus
and some lost shelf cloud
marauding on phytomer
a sea serpent stops for prey
a neck pulses
breath must be stole so jumps
this wet head sudden-bloomed out of a
cold channel like a time lapsed flower
Ariel Riveros Pavez 
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