The Sonnet of Bioluminescence

I was a lanternfish inside your chest,

its lure a footnote biting back in blue.

You froze a jellyfish where peas should rest,

said sabotage preserved our déjà vu.

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Your breath was thunderstorms and pencil lead,

I hummed your static while the eels swam past.

A tubeworm sang, my shadow left your bed,

we kissed, the squid erased half lines too fast.

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Your grapefruit glowed with phosphor from the trench,

a birdcage key cut scars across the rind.

We slept in algae, saints of silt and stench,

your ankle watched with saints that never shined.

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You whispered, “Love’s a basement flood, abyss,”

and every gill believed your venomous kiss.