So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish
a poem
If a crystal pyramid sits
where his head should be,
do not resist bathing first
in the holy disco
and ecstatic beat
of your forgotten longings.
Binge on Neptune's fizzy spring,
wear pink foam like jewelry
until you are pruny and molten.
.
Next find the room that transfigures
one hundred wild glances
into matchsticks.
In the cavern below the lumbar curve,
ignite the cold, forgotten oil,
feed it to inferno, taste
every morsel dripping from
that silver tongue
until you are no longer starving.
.
And if the parade of fathers and kings
begin their proud, backwards march,
and plastic beads
arc out of the crowd and into
your hands, and the cannon slurps
confetti, condensing, from the air,
and the brass line inhales,
know this—it is no accident.
.
Notice the hum in your own
purring throat, just as the clockwise turn
begins again, and the prism confers
an essential obsidian indifference.
Withdraw the wavelengths—you must!—
from the memory of the sun,
his refractory gaze
(and yours).
.
Go ahead.
.
Ebb into the melting mirage.
Drink the aching middle
through uncorked tips
of your fingers and toes,
hold your own waist and waltz
with each emergent shadow,
scream at clouds,
loose ribbons of your blood
into the cruel, wending river
and say thanks
as the colors
become you.
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Comments (19)
Saw this when the winners were announced and forgot to comment. Belated congratulations on a really zesty dreamy interpretation of the prompt. Really well done
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Oh my gosh I love this, "Drink the aching middle through uncorked tips of your fingers and toes, hold your own waist and waltz with each emergent shadow,"
The way how you see love and feel it is brilliant. I subscribed you to give my support and I welcome you to read my ones too 🥰!
Nice one dear congratulations 👏🏼
Wow so surreal, and vivid. Congratulations on TS.
congratulation on TS. well deserved and beautifully written.
I loved reading this. It's a beautiful poem, and very well written. Great use of words, and strongly relatable.
Excellent
Congratulations!!!
A great poem, definitely deserved of top story. This has some brilliant phrasing
A psychedelic delicatessen of words
HOLY GUACAMOLE THIS IS TRANSCENDENTAL
Your world is sublime!
This is stunning — it feels like stepping into a dream and coming out changed. Thank you for sharing it. Congratulations on your Top Story!
Douglas Adams meets Mardi Gras or Day of the Dead? Or perhaps words intended to induce a hypnotic trance?
Wow awesome content
This is pure sensual magic, Morgana. Visceral and beautiful. Had to read it twice to see if I’d have the same emotional reaction to it (I did).
This is beyond my ability to critique. Emotionally I was spellbound