- by Ryan Oliveira
Comb Jelly

struggling to sleep i search the comfortable abyss
and find the only earthly light is a dancing widow
on the wall, staring mindless paralyzed in time
cross-section of a spinal cord coming from nowhere
like a comb jelly floating in the unknown universe
a frozen filament hurricane of a pale white ice core
and i think this is the x-ray of a lonely soul
macrosynaptic transmission between man and trace
and the more i stare, the more i mull that nothing matters
but this comb jelly stroking me, steady as it goes
to sink below the stormy surface and become still, stoic
corpse-posed, possessed of dust dreaming weary in this ocean
decomposing into the oldest boats in the fleeting life
the ones that meet the sunrise after casting out the moon
and lasting one more life, just a little more life…
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