years when young
reiving to volve a convert
and turn them back to the seep
he marked and measured with a few cobbles
echo close behind
gliding solvent to map the gulf
from fumbling patterns
they mingle, the distant end of an optic trawl
or dredge a means.

he collected the sea floor
the bed came inter
checked how as a drowned village
that grabbed blind
rich fluid emerging
abrupt their followers dressed
as plastic whitish clams
out in the perpetual darkness
species interact
(I'm reminded of the mannerist Pontormo).
out to grow quickly
as the more features
at the central vent
mildness with saline
outs that echo
while logical forces the almost
through a kilometre of years in the fo'c'sle
and it is one of janus in five to ten
forcing my hand —
this approach may hold out,
macros that lived our secrete:
something interchanging with mega.