Rose
A new name for me and a great discovery.
Has something of the Ted Hughes about it - the shark that hungers down the blood smell even to a leak of its own side...
Your little list of attributes is in itself a masterpiece of compression.
It reminds me somewhat (though I can't say why), also, of W S Merwin's
THE CURRENT
For a long time some of us
lie in the marshes like dark coats
forgetting that we are water
dust gathers all day on our closed lids
weeds grow up through us
but the eels keep trying to tell us
writing over and over in our mud
our heavenly names
and through us a thin cold current
never sleeps
its glassy feet move on until they find stones
then cloud fish call to it again
your heart is safe with us
bright fish flock to it again touch it
with their mouths say yes
have vanished
yes and black flukes wave to it
from the Lethe of the whales
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