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  • February 17, 2019

Aurelia Aurita: Moon Jelly

Posted on 06.01.14 by VoiceCatcher

by Lois Rosen

No one cares about undress in the sea
Milky pink lingerie can’t camouflage
my stomachs and radial canals
Aren’t we all
water-filled
animals

Diaphanous parachute transparent moon
I contract
and expand
contract
and expand
no heart
spine
eye
ear
nor anxious brain

Muscle pulsation flings
plankton shrimp mollusks
against
my mucal skin

I sway delicate flagellate solicitation
but
don’t think
you can grab
or
fondle me

Call me Medusa Saucer Umbrella
Silk Camisole
Belle

I lurk below your ocean’s shallow rim
No spearless Lolita
venomous
I sting

 

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