abstract fish physics

abstract fish physics you know that underwater seaweed nectar kelp-cloudy fog water soaking bird feathers with light residue swampy sand bark walking land sharks that eat lawn grass to populate turtles with shell tattoos and the tide keeps sketching equations on the soft green glass of the inlet like the ocean forgot it was water and tried becoming memory instead snails drag silver rumors through driftwood catfish blink like old submerged stars the reeds lean in with their swamp-mouth silence as if naming us from where they are mud carries the print of vanished creatures half-hoof, half-fin, half-leaf, half-song and everything feels slightly miscreated but in that strange way that feels not wrong bird-light clings to the fog in fragments salt breathing through the feather steam kelp nectar drips from the mouth of the current like the swamp is feeding a dream the land sharks wander through yardlight slow-jawed, grassy, holy, absurd while bark-foot things keep walking inland answering no law we ever heard and the turtles, inked in shell tattoos carry old marsh symbols on their backs little maps of a soaked creation where the lost and living overlap the whole world feels half underwater even standing here on breathing land like reflection learned to mutate and made new animals by hand