three-quarters
of the earth sloshes
around, 326 million
trillion gallons, some
say one big drop,
circulating lifeblood,
transfusing forms —
what used to quench
dinosaurs is now 95
percent tomato
/ Drink up,
piss away,
flush /
otherworldly, the deep
and wide seas roll open,
defined not by coastline
but by air undulating,
skies adrift with ghostly
gases rising warm dipping
cool coiling clockwise into
a slow-stir current, a gyre
of lethargic rhythm
orbiting the eye
/ Unwind swim
and surf or sail far
away, far /
across the downwelling
desert a polyethylene beast
prowls, a mutant plesiosaur
maybe — hungrier than twice
texas and regurgitating cast-
away plastic swill: unmatched
flip-flops & nikes, tv dinner
trays, tampon applicators,
syringes, an inhaler, 29,000
yellow duck bathtub toys
/ Float face up
like bubbles and
flotsam /
5.5 x 1015 per annum,
give or take, countless
unbreakable insoluble
manufactured particles
sopping up toxins day
by indigestible day,
trawl nets congesting with
glassy scintillas, which to
the starving albatross
resemble fish eggs
/ Gasp, sputter
and gag
swallowing, sink /
a human soul
dwells in maritime;
fill its flesh from tiptoe
to armpit, that’s how
much water, 72%, even
more in blood pumping
nutrients and waste,
wants and don’t wants,
all the panaceas and
the venom
/ Weep your last,
the unwept
oceanic tears / | 
