drifters

john martone

samuddo / ocean 2014

drifters copyright 2014 by john martone samuddo / ocean limited print edition johnmartone@gmail.com

waking up one morning retina having torn eyes full of circlets & other creatures swirling in waves of light

lying in bed eyes full of plankton

plankton all along thats you drifter

even now yr body a dense plankton cloud

plankton
any ones just a stage

coccolithophore
8-spoked wheels in you measure less time

copepod
bodys center light receptor

copepods
diapause people lie down

anabaena
each syl la ble an al gal cell

navicula

(youre too big for this see-thru boat)

plankton
raise cliffs people small houses

lonely

night his microscope

his nick-nack shelf

when theres nothing else his microscope

both hands full

this microscope shouldve taken you places

microscope

the weight of a plaster statue

facetotectan
no one knows what youll become

blindness
that flash the micro scope mirror

a lunar

depression microscope slide

Phaeocystis globosa
the jelly of his eyes planktonic jelly

a glass flask plankton

micro scope
lenses barrel gearwork all for you waterdrop

cosmosphaera
a waterdrop full of broken globes

a long ladders broken in this waterdrop

blue

after two billion years

clear sky
waste of plankton

study

diatoms this lifes folly

microscope

didnt see the whole house getting dark

6 syllables
velella velella

velella
velella my little blue boat my trans parent sail my colony of one fingerprint in the wind

carotenids

amidas pure land

they take in light & luminesce