Sylvia Plath - Aquatic Nocturne

deep in liquid <br />turquoise slivers <br />of dilute light <br /> <br />quiver in thin streaks <br />of bright tinfoil <br />on mobile jet: <br /> <br />pale flounder <br />waver by <br />tilting silver: <br /> <br />in the shallows <br />agile minnows <br />flicker gilt: <br /> <br />grapeblue mussels <br />dilate lithe and <br />pliant valves: <br /> <br />dull lunar globes <br />of blubous jellyfish <br />glow milkgreen: <br /> <br />eels twirl <br />in wily spirals <br />on elusive tails: <br /> <br />adroir lobsters <br />amble darkly olive <br />on shrewd claws: <br /> <br />down where sound <br />comes blunt and wan <br />like the bronze tone <br />of a sunken gong.<br /><br />Sylvia Plath<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/aquatic-nocturne/