something lurks

Church of Whale Fall

This too shall pass l Mark Dobson l Cornwall England

1. Atolla Jelly 2. Luminous Earthworm 3. Beroe Comb Jelly 4. Firefly Squid 5. Pyrosomes 6. Dragon Fish source: x

i've always felt alone

always felt in the dark

hidden away from the tides that pull everyone else

together.

but the world is so full

of light, and sound, and care,

and i've just found one of its desolate corners

without.

everyone i've met

is just as lonely as i

so i pull, i beg, i beckon, like a beacon in the night

hungry

and they find me, grateful,

kneeling, desperate for this

connection for which we've both been starved and

then

i snap, i lunge, i tear, i beg, you won't leave, you won't, i won't let you, please, stay,

and he says it back,

snap, lunge, tear, beg, deny, decry, demand, desire, deride, derivative. destructive. deleterious.

only one of us would leave alive

we knew this from the beginning,

trailing the memories of lovers behind me like

jewelry,

accoutrements of lives before,

dreams of agapé that drain me

the ones that never got away, and he stays there too, saying

"i saw your light

i came

no matter how it ended,

it started."

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Light, commissioned by @serenefig

David Blackwood - Island Funeral (1967)

mistkirill on ig

Else Bostelmann (German-American, 1882-1961) - A Saber-Toothed Viperfish (1934)

Kristaps Ungurs

(via)

Whale Shark Gliding Through Bioluminiscent Algae _ Mike Nulty

SPACE SHARK

🦑 ~ Blood-belly Comb Jelly ~ 🦑 (thenaturalistsguide)

(Credit if you use) (ko-fi)

my piece for the @swimonzine! you can get the pdf with over a hundred cool sharks for $1+ here

bull sharks can live in salt and freshwater (growing up in mangroves & salt marshes then migrating upriver or to the ocean), a cool fact i briefly attempted to work into the illustration before giving up and just dumping some weird old tech in there

Cutlassfish (Mysteries of the Twilight Zone | Worlds of the Deep — Natural World Facts)