MANON REVUELTA

 

Alluvium

 
Shoals of mouths bloom into growth. Inside them milk-cusps, small ear-openings,
eyelid-rivulets. Their tongue-roots fibrous, forming sponge-like clumps. Functioning as
a sieve. Soft mountains of capillaries, convoluted with gaps, then expel the excess
fluid. 
 
This wetness collapses as it meets translucent algae. Ripe, brittle droplets, veined with
red vegetation, burst open after layered abrasions. Numerous hand-forms emerge
from the keratin tubule. They feed on the shallower light and, as it leaks, the silk forms
a crust. 
 
Seed-clouds ripple inside the blood. The edges are filled with hollow pores on close
examination. These provide a loose, thin casing for the yellower pieces, and prevent
them from tangling. The clotted lobules are cloaked in moss, which is eventually
peeled away by the shortness of its shadows. 
 

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Manon Revuelta is a student living in Auckland city.