Eleven Kilometers Down
Eleven kilometers of water pressing from above,
and the organisms at that depth have made themselves to love,
the eleven kilometers as the environment they need,
eleven kilometers is where the adapted ones succeed.
Eleven kilometers down, the bottom of the world,
eleven kilometers down, the deepest flag unfurled,
eleven kilometers down, no turning back from here,
eleven kilometers down, the only thing is clear.
The snailfish holds the depth record at eight thousand four,
hundred meters and they caught it on the camera and more,
and it moved through the hadal zone with all the ease,
of something that had been there from the very start to please.
Eleven kilometers of water over my head right now,
as I write this on the surface I am trying to allow,
the fact of that to register, eleven kilometers of wet,
between the bottom of the world and where I have not been yet.
Eleven kilometers of water pressing from above,
and the organisms at that depth have made themselves to love,
the eleven kilometers as the environment they need,
eleven kilometers is where the adapted ones succeed.
Eleven kilometers down, the bottom of the world,
eleven kilometers down, the deepest flag unfurled,
eleven kilometers down, no turning back from here,
eleven kilometers down, the only thing is clear.
The snailfish holds the depth record at eight thousand four,
hundred meters and they caught it on the camera and more,
and it moved through the hadal zone with all the ease,
of something that had been there from the very start to please.
Eleven kilometers of water over my head right now,
as I write this on the surface I am trying to allow,
the fact of that to register, eleven kilometers of wet,
between the bottom of the world and where I have not been yet.