Aquatic Nocturne

deep in liquid

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 blubous jellyfish

glow milkgreen:

eels twirl

in wily spirals

on elusive tails:

adroir lobsters

amble darkly olive

on shrewd claws:

down where sound

comes blunt and wan

like the bronze tone

of a sunken gong.