Larval eel

Like a polished whiskey glass

Thin as an eyelash

Like touching liquid velvet

Odorless. Washed of scent but not sterile

Waving like a ribbon on a dancer

Moving with wispy grace that would bring envy in a nymph

Like so many sheer scarves on a clothesline

Sargassum fish, frogfish

Protrusions on the fin like a beclawed cat ready to pounce

Scales painted with white splatter by Jackson Pollock

Flesh cabbage

Stiff feathers of skin on the forehead

Foul rotten meat

More slimy and twitchy than its namesake

Sargassum crab

Flailing in slow motion, like a poorly made Matrix fan film

Legs like bands of stained gold

Smooth and beetle like claws

Posed like a space invader

A shell shadowed like the top of cathedral grotesques, obstructed from the sun but protecting the,
littering of reflective gold within the basilica

Insectile