architectural mollusks are falloping through my brain squeezing past the instincts that have kept me down My instincts, once brittle sea stars that splintered into cracked peppercorns, are now mixed with the breathy liquid of squid, lubrication for the spiny paths ahead They blow their ink between my inverted vertebrae injecting Jello into bone busting through fiber and tissue like fresh-skimmed lavacream and all my muck rises to the top in a neon rawness that I find beautiful
Soon my burning crevices will be cooled fossils will turn to flesh and, as sure as knowledge springs into action I will make for the shoreline like a cephalopod rocket silky smooth my fins spun into wings touching magic as they glide