echolocation

[fleur_de_soleil]

 insidious membrane
thousands of steel needle-trees
growing into my flesh

anchoring, stitching seamlessly
Itself
to the deftly woven redgold silk of 
Myself

[and i can still hear you
underwater
encapsulated, like 
this.
and some light filters through
aqueous, refractive

but here in the 
benthic zone, we keep the golden
syrup of time, crystalline
cold
in suspension within the slow pulses
of blue green blood and 
primordial skin]