- Vol. 03
- Chapter 02
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Image by Philipp Keller/Stelzer Group/EMBL
O medaka
Your transparent skin &bulbous blue eyes, fluttery
fins & gulping gills
do not entrance. In a rice paddy,
you’re nothing special. Hardy,
yes. Reproductively prolific.
But your pedestrian exterior
is just a cover for your secret,
for the ET fish that hides
within indigo flesh, threaded
with fluorescent green tendrils.
Nervous system aglow.
All systems go.