#float away

The hum of the fluorescent lights

a low thrumming in my skull.

Another notification blinks.

The weight of it all, a physical press

against my chest, my shoulders,

anchoring me to this tired chair,

this predictable view.

There's a wanting, sharp and clean,

like the edge of a shattered glass shard,

to be unbound. To loosen

these invisible tethers that hold me

to the mundane, the heavy,

the relentlessly real.

I imagine a lightness,

a rising without effort,

as if my bones had turned to helium,

my skin to the thinnest membrane.

Floating upward, past the ceiling,

through layers of grey sky,

leaving behind the concrete and the clamor.

A drifting, effortless journey

into the cool, silent dark.

Not an escape from something, exactly,

but an arrival somewhere else.

A place unburdened by consequence,

untouched by the familiar ache.

Another reality whispers at the edges

of my awareness, a shimmer in the periphery.

A world where gravity loosens its grip,

where the rules are fluid,

where the self might dissolve

and reform into something lighter,

something free.

A longing for that buoyant departure,

a silent wish to simply float away.

#stonewalls

Hello, hi! In honor of World Reef Day, we invite you to take a rest from all the rainbows and feast your peepers on these weird smiley water creatures.

Behold the blubber-evidenced chub of the plesiosaur. Yes, ma’am! @alphynix​ posts paleontology art, feathers dinosaurs, and curates scientific curiosities:

A sea slug detaches its head from its body (Spoiler! Nobody dies!). Turn to @todropscience​​ for all your marine science and biology needs:

Swim with him! @jellygummies​ is full of the bouncy, candy-coated uncanny:

Visit @donutdrawsthings​​ for artistic renderings of other things that may or may not dance and dwell in the wet:

Float away

Float away

Gone to stay