drifters

drift

radiating combs
        touch

princess trails

         a dance under glassing water
                miraculously bellied
                       bell of belles

flex and swim
pulse and sting
    beautiful without the need

    old-fashioned hobby, bobbing
    netting boxes, tiny
        along the invisible current

or sized like a human head

uncoil your barbs
sting like Goneril
sing like Cordelia
    be one and the same
    beauty, beast