The reefs, excruciated into ossuaries
are speckless—immaculately dead. A tangle
of stark, white neurons blanched
quiet, into the worst kind
of peace. What fish remain
swim lethargic, wayward
paths, like a calligraphy bleeding off
the page. Is this the price of witness?
An epic, stoney corpse glares an apathy
out of her assassin’s accomplice.