the blue dissolving / skeletons / a swimming
fin, a way to meet a woman was a visible
glow, a face I longed for, falling into trenches
like a heart steeped / out of reach in my own
body / symmetry of a set of arms modified
as a mantle is edible, especially indelible as letters
color-fast, suspended bleeding at the edges
a compound such as salt rubbed
in intentionally / would I ever know such depths
luminescence / what could I see before me
on a shelf supplies kept eventually expire / ammonia
brine and imitation / ice / had I brought these
on myself / ingredients laid on a plate but when
water wets paper, the desire to migrate away
from overlapping currents, a faucet leaking
as a pen takes in ink / to sink

“{marginalia} anatomy of an ocean” appears in DUM DUM Zine Issue 7: Quar + Time which is available to read online here.