Dark blue brine on an a shallow slope
Ping-pong plankton afloat
Resting lightly in the water
Caged by translucent plastic
Exposed to the clear element above...
Water, fresh water, such as fills its
core.
A slosh sends the layers waving
The blue curls up into fresh
Off the walls rebounding
While the shallow fresh water rolls
into quiet.
Crystals of KMnO4
Potassium permanganate
Fall in magenta streaks
Swirling right in the fresh water
Left in the salt
And darkening the interface
Where the ping-pong plankton floats.
When it settles the magenta traces
chaotic patterns
As it settles, where it will.
Squeak, goes the styrofoam as it blocks
off one part
Green, turns the water as the yellow is
stirred in,
And then
The wall
Is taken
Away!
Mixed salt and fresh the green streaks
in
Pushing up the magenta touched clear
And nosing above the darkened salt
Til the spectrum sits quietly
Magenta, green, blue,
And the purple of sediment enriched
salt
Stratification that we may see
With eyes our own
Plain in the visible spectrum
As it cannot be
In the untouched reality
Of our home sea.
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