Ascending

(Response to Assemblage by
Sheila Golding with the same name)

Emergent from the sea;
Glued,
Floating,
Swimming,
Clawing,
Crawling,
Locomoting.
Oxygen sucking hydrocarbon structures;
Unconscious,
Reflective and self-aware.
Living blimp with steel claws.
Worms from the depths fitting the puzzle pieces.
A topograph of geologic existence.
Fire and a sword.
Don’t cry for spilled milk of golden bottle.
Jellyfish nullifying Swedish fission.
Sex lives of the stars;
Stars of sex;
Sex in the stars.
“the BRAVE seek existing life.”
Existing life seeking the brave.
Who will Brave to flee the sea?

-Jay Ressler