Surfaced, the snail pokes a tube into the air and takes in a shell full: when he gets too much and, let go to sink, floats, trapped weightless, he measures and measures, as if studying, then tilts and a single sized bubble escapes the shell rim: and down he goes, as if dreaming gravity’s smoothest dream.
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Surfaced, the snail pokes
a tube into the air
and takes in a shell full:
when he gets too much
and, let go to sink,
floats, trapped weightless,
he measures and measures,
as if studying, then
tilts and a single
sized bubble escapes the shell rim:
and down he goes, as if
dreaming gravity’s smoothest dream.
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