Poetrie: Aquatic Nocturne

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So I'm trying one of these.

Aquatic Nocturne

by Sylvia Plath

deep in liquid indigo

turquoise slivers

of dilute light

quiver in thin streaks

of bright tinfoil

on mobile jet:

pale flounder

waver by

tilting silver:

in the shallows

agile minnows

flicker gilt:

grapeblue mussels

dilate lithe and

pliant valves:

dull lunar globes

of bulbous jellyfish

glow milkgreen:

eels twirl

in wily spirals

on elusive tails:

adroit lobsters

amble darkly olive

on shrewd claws:

down where sound

comes blunt and wan

like the bronze tone

of a sunken gong.