science calls us sequential hermaphrodites
we have no name
scales glimmer brown gold
after my mate passes
i change gender
don a new life
scatter eggs into the abyss
sixty feet under the sea
coral crackles sunlight
we chomp it
assholes
shit pebbles
of hawaii’s
white sand
beaches
night
fallswe
secrete mucus
membranesfromforeheads
cocoonourbodies
inmemory
my kind grow giant
loom in storms
at the bottom of the sea
know our existence in itself
magnificence.