Arpine Konyalian: THE BLACK EEL
Silent
blind of skin
bearing heavy what was told
of scaly, crusty, protruding
with stone-colored madness in her eyes
the bulge of drowned Mesopotamia
on their pupils, that focus back and forth
that flutter . . .
her strong-muscled jaws have disappeared inward
from the thinness of purpose that presses
the black eel knows
an obscure deaf matter that is
sand of Palmyra against her skin
a hovering of wetness that warps her
through foreign rock, over
huge water reflecting her form
awestruck and twisting ...
she is blanked with befitting instinct
the yellow-orange that beguiles her
that she evades, knowing
she is star material
on earth, rock material
striped silk material of aeons
soon to be splintered, dispersed
into a groaning cycle
of black eel
eel unto eel
nothing will stop her
not even her awkward skeletal mind
she has been on her way
for a long time now