#lugworms

Terebellida. Marine worms of this order are sessile detritivores that live within a tube they form out of sand. It includes extremophiles like the Pompeii worms

Scolecida. This infraclass of marine worms feed on detritus, and includes bamboo worms and lugworms

wave-whipped windswept strands strewn with jettisoned jewels, jelly encrusted with shell grit and grains of sand.

Brackish bladderwrack, entangled like rubber bands, vesicles gasping, protuberant thyroid glands, flutter flirty flimsy fronds,

release gametes in a dioecious dance of fertilisation.

All the while we humble lugworms, the artistic architects of small, intricate casts, ripple across shoreline space, never meeting face to face:

lonely males scatter passionless cloudy puddles, washed by waves into shallows, where we coy females pause in furrows.

© Kim M. Russell, 2016

Images found on  www.telegraph.co.uk  and www.seaangler.co.uk

My poem for dVerse Poets Pub Open Link Night #181, where Mish is our host. She has been pondering October and the way time flies, and shared a poem by Carl Sandburg called ‘Autumn Movement’, which is a reminder of the brevity of this season –  a poem I wasn’t familiar with and which I’m so pleased I am now.

I’ve kind of mixed all three of the recent prompts in my poem, with a smattering of cubism, some razzle dazzle and arrangement.

sometimes I try to be more specific like “working by my own initiative” or I talk about being able to direct and organise within a team. idk if it actually sounds good but ehhhhhhh also woah replies are back

if blubbering on the phone counts as badass? thank you

lugworms said: your top is excellent! and so are you <3

where2cop?

i have killer forearms

i can swim 50 metres underwater without breathing

weird syntax

less and less materialistic

I believe in u, this is too good an opportunity to pass up, the reward is gunna outweigh any brief awkwardness xx