Ode to a Large Tuna in the Market
Among t greens,
a bullet
from the ocean
depths,
a swimming
projectile,
I saw you,
dead.
All around you
tuces,
sea foam
of th,
carrots,
grapes,
but
of the ocean
truth,
of the unknown,
of the
unfathomable
she
depths
of the sea,
the abyss,
only you had survived,
a pitch-black, varnished
ness
to deepest night.
Only you, well-aimed
dark bullet
from the abyss,
mangled
at one tip,
but constantly
reborn,
at anc,
winged fins
windmilling
in t
flight
of
the
marine
shadow,
a mourning arrow,
dart of the sea,
olive, oily fish.
I saw you dead,
a deceased king
of my own ocean,
green
assault, silver
submarine fir,
seed
of seaquakes,
now
only dead remains,
yet
in all t
yours
he only
purposeful form
amid
t
of nature;
amid the fragile greens
you were
a solitary ship,
armed
among tables
fin and prow black and oiled,
as if you ill
the wind,
the one and only
pure
ocean
machine:
unflaing
ters of death.