I'm so pleased that this poem was included in the new SciPo anthology (Angled by the Flood) which was launched last week.
Blue stars
The sea glows
with glitter
Lit up bodies
like blue stars
in distant arrays
Rigel
copied in vast patches of space
then shrunk
Shrunk in the waters of heads
Small masses,
the brightest points
Charged up
Bold enough to heat coldness
But, there are
just sparks of light
and hardly any warmth
The sea’s waves slide by
Fulgent
Algae blooms
of plankton are ocean dreams
near stages
They are footlights
all of them
The species
containing a key compound
use a gas,
the one we breathe, to form light
How noble!
The floodlights
The blue stars