because it looks like a slug fused with a peacock
because it’s hermaphrodite with penis and vagina
because it’s five millimetres and lives a year
because it’s Costasiella Kuroshimae
because it has rhinophores with black tips and wondering eyes
because its cerata are like aloe vera
because its rhinophores scent chemicals in water
because it lives on Avrainvillea, fifteen or twenty to a blade
because it lives in silt (hold your breath) eighteen meters below sea
because it’s horned and green, an animal plant
but because it photosynthesises, as if you could eat salad
extract chloroplasts and live on nothing
but sun, and because they say the age of
miracles is over.
Thank you for this restack @man of aran. Hugely appreciated! 😊
Thanks, Alan, I'm so glad you like it. Wow, to be compared with Christopher Smart! It's years since I have read him - I shall have to look My Cat Jeoffry up. Thanks too, therefore, for suggesting exciting reading!