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Looking out at a flat gray sea, I try to imagine the chasms in the ocean’s floor where lava laced with strontium pours...
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I try to imagine the chasms
in the ocean’s floor where lava
laced with strontium pours
from our planet’s core, and fanged,
transparent creatures flourish
in a toxic stew science fiction
never fancied. Strange to see
myself as a sea-beast hovering
at the hot spots of my patients’
lives, opaque, omnivorous,
sucking down their sadness
with such fierce hunger
I keep asking for more, amazed
by my diet, the way I thrive.