parrotfish tranifesto

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science calls us sequential hermaphrodites
we have no name
scales glimmer like 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.



Scallion Pancakes

Even lizards, starfish, and sea cucumbers
Can regrow their limbs,
Like the scallions did after my mother
Gave them a haircut before dinnertime.


Mirror Mother

She says, look.
The world is ending.
The bridges are unbuilding themselves.