The sky turned navy, while saltwater dreams threaded through shipwrecks on the sea floor Darkness haunted the ruins like ink-stained ghosts and you couldn't see the stars under the waves and the jellyfish and the rust because we were all too scared to swim away from the familiar, beautiful nauseating darkness
Our footsteps were heavy, as if we were weighted down by bricks The ethereal electricity of the ocean's embrace dragged wandering pieces of thought back into consciousness as the fading stars left our veins flowing a broken-watercolor-aquamarine
Dawn began to dust the clouds with her coral-rose blush light rained down on fluttering eyelashes so we became moths, flinging ourselves onto street-lamps and into fires and through windows of hearts The jellyfish drowned in its own phosphor and up we fell