Globigerina Ooze

he zooms into her

she does this
pulls him in

with a gravity of herself
he awakes into her
twisting a lens into focus
is there in her swells
her frets
at this scale

she is all of earth and sky
longitude
great circles, rhumb lines
a spinning equatorial track
along which her sun meanders

—a hay wain lurching
down some sunny ride
he travels within

dizzy in her arc
shivered in the smoke
of a basalt sea floor
binds hard to her heaving plates
settles there

sea creature fallen soft
in Pacific ooze
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