CANTO 91 half below

 

Half below: swaying kelp

shapes of whales

snails in their whorls

bubbles flattening as they rise

 

half above: salt air

algae broth lapping glass

frigate bird

fading into slate haze

 

sharp white of clouds

pressurized passengers

scan magazines

doze

 

half in half out

of ooze: passage

through rift and bedrock

sulfur vent alien worms

 

Brontosaurus to bird

soaring to mind

ozone thins

dark matter begins

 

a statement

reaching for a state

nickel-iron core

a hand a half-open door