1.
Forget ropes helmets / locking carabiners this / is how it is done
Bodies of water / we swim perpendicular / to the fisherman
Float and fly alike / suspended to the surface / measured in seconds
Quicksilver-sinewed / we repeat our multiples / over distances
Our mouth of turquoise / intended a razorblade / flashing fast forward
2.
Schooling juveniles / we learn our moves in the cove / darning smaller waves
A collective loom / weaving gradients of green / into the surface
After the shallows / we travel uncertainties / gleams of will unhelmed
Taking whip stitches / rollered billowed black and blue / flyweight obstinate
Making a home of / unforeseen diagonals / we sleep between storms
3.
This is what I see / purple flannels of plankton / awaiting relief
Offered colourful / their feast of physical forms / we resolve in loops
An invisible / contraption of gossamer / holds perils and preys
Reef sharks cuttlefish / an embrace of tentacles / corrects our numbers
It is what it is / raptorial and edible / caused and consequenced
4.
I will tie myself / firmly to the rippled warp / of the open sea
My body shuttle / my words of silence a weft / for plaiting oceans
I am not alone / my brothers flags and beaters / fishnets and crossbows
Our geometries / of circles and parallels / deadly to the krill
This is bravery / to traverse the ocean deep / without belayer
5.
You crosspiece treadle / you weave you mechanical / needing wood to fly
We do all of that / naked but knowledgeable / ask the pelican
Lightbulb-excited / we make a sharp spectacle / over your flatboats
Our encounters short / resolved in a broken beak / and a puncture wound
Your father and I / crossing bloods on the starboard / know that we are one