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dreamyeyedrose:

a poetry submission for @montereybayaquarium ’s Deep Sea December 💘

Day 2 – Red

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Vantared Mariana's eyes don't work well so when she asked me to explain what the color red was like it took me a moment. she's always such a good listener and so I want to do her request justice. I laid back tilted my head up to look at the riftia which I guess she took as refusal. "it's okay if you can't," she murmured as an anglerfish saw me and swam away. "I was just... curious." I shake my head. "it's just.... hard to explain. I'm thinking." the sea vents bubbled understandingly and I thought about it, and this is what I told her: red seeps up from the sea floor vents mixes with the teal of the sea— "why is it teal?" she asks, and I respond— because blue is too sad and green is too animal. she nods, and I continue. the red from the sea vents mixes with the red already in the water— "where did that red come from?" she asks, and I gesture out into the distance. the shy angler hums happily at her fresh kill. when she eats, the other fish spills red and the angler has vermillion on its heart for the rest of the day. but red is also in baby sea turtles, their journey makes them red, and their first taste of teal washes it away. there's also red when mantis shrimp get crabby and when schools panic, and when an octopus is born, and when a penguin accepts a pebble, and even more reds from similar places. "are you red?" she asks, and I pause. I watch the warmth swirl up past me up into nothingness. up into every color and no color, all at once. and I reply: there's red in the way I dance alone and red in my shame when I see someone watching there's red in my pen when I'm crying, when words and tears flow in tandem, there's red in my frustration, and in my pride, and in other of my heartfelt places. I'm too teal to be red. but I'm both. that makes her smile. "water is clear," she replies, and we laugh. ALT

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