Monterey Bay Aquarium — ❄️🤍

poetics-tracy:

Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Deep Sea December 2025

Day 1: Snow

Bits of the world drift

into darkness, pulled down

into pressurized depths,

become food for creatures

who have never seen the world

above. Can you imagine

never knowing the sky?

Marine snow carries a taste

of the beyond: a hint of sunlight,

a whisper of shining blue

surface. Marine snow, if uneaten,

finds its way to the bottom

of everything, where hunger

still exists, where the cycle

of life can continue.

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I’m late to the party because it’s finals week in graduate school, and I don’t do actual art, but I ADORE the Monterey Bay Aquarium, so I want to participate with poetry.

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