By Lynne Goldsmith
Out for tasting of night,
copepods and larvae,
barnacles and anemones,
starfish and pelagic worms—
these and more
than ten thousand species
of zooplankton make for
(in microscopic terms)
largest of animal migration
around the globe
(freshwater or ocean)—
bodies that rise with their wake
from the deep in their meeting
orchestration of drifters,
while avoiding the light,
dimming predation, reaching
for first chain in life, marine
giver of breath for all the Earth,
that plant of bloom, that surface
dweller of ornamentation,
developer of carbon sink,
diatoms, coccolithophores—
designs, some of dream
turning from chalky white
to streams of blue
swirling back a sky,
or filigrees turned edible
shells of glass into gold
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This post was previously published on emagazine.com.
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