UNDER THE SEA - POEM

I have been extremely industrious today - tidying up my hard drive, getting rid of duplicates etc so the machine will run a little faster and smoother (hopefully, fingers & toes crossed).

So I came across this poem I wrote a few years ago, which was previously published in the ArtErratica zine (issue 3, I think). It's a bit gloomy, but so is the day: grey skies, freezing cold, very misty this morning. This kind of illustrates my mood (wading through tons of files isn't exactly helping...)

Copyright-free photo by Benedikte Deborah Byrkjeland, from Stockvault.net

UNDER THE SEA

Down in the Deeps

Blue gleaming sparkles – sun (remember sun?)

Electric eels ebb and flow

Shocks in the darkness, bolts in the blue

Layers of meaning

Down

Further down

Down to the bottom

Ground down: fine sand

Remains of life lived above, layered on layer

Silt

In the deepest of Deeps

The final full stop

Copyright: Susie Jefferson 2002

I promise the next post will be something more frivolous!