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"What if you were blind, and aquatic, and highly intelligent in there, and increasingly concerned about how many edible Jupiter-chemicals you could harvest from your ice-sky."

"Waters of Europa"

into the dark, kelp-webbed · waters of Europa
where there is neither up nor down · in nor out
doddering monster · at the milquetoast podium
in bubbles dissolves · my silver dream
from a hospital bed · being turned
   alive into a pangolin
in whose scales i learned · my silver dream
the latticework wrought · all my rules carved
then dark waters · dug me a form
under the ice · of far Europa

said i must have more · on that endless staircase
the crowd silent · seeing me wander

radial i swam · with no head or feet
& the rabbits came out · to dance when i died

Richelieu on the Sea Wall of La Rochelle.

"SNOWFALL (Anagrammed Lines)

Winter wails lavish frost:
Snowfall arrives, with its
faint silver. Slow wraiths
flow in salt rivers. What is
final swirls over its thaw."

—@anthonyetherin.bsky.social

Earliest known group of chess pieces.