Aquatic Nocturne

deep in liquid indigo

  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 bulbous jellyfish

    glow milkgreen:

eels twirl

  in wily spirals

    on elusive tails:

adroit lobsters

  amble darkly olive

    on shrewd claws:

down where sound

  comes blunt and wan

    like the bronze tone

      of a sunken gong.