Cephalopod by Myrtle V

Making electroacoustic music in Kazakhstan, Myrtle V also puts pen to paper and has been published on Eastlit. Her electronics are produced as Vortichez, the next piece forthcoming on RMN Classical's electroacoustic compilation. https://soundcloud.com/animus-1

Cephalopod

Brain weight flops head

sinks with each swoop net step.

No step: a parade

sand and locals part the ways

mythical fingers unfurl

dense multiplex intelligence.

Never destined as crisp lemon

plate-fellow to

limp lettuce leaves

and simple halved tomato.

That's rose-tinted BBC

large unchallenged camera

octopus. When we met

at your dark coral hideout

kaleidoscopic electric fear

my giant-eyed mirror

legs flow violet poetry.

You not appeased

’til I collect myself

fumble flipper retreat.

Low-resource spear-fisher

hitches back the fast way

impaled jelly quarry lands

brain speared

the deck now your garden.

Technicolour worry

now white in the day

revealed to my salt face

bitter traces of

yesterday’s calamari.