Exceptional Free Verse with a sting in the tail Free Verse Collection : Slack-Jawed Tide by tfawcus

Silver still the sea tonight, a luminescent, viscous thing of listless lull, and solipsistic slop and murmuring, that softly sucks the life from hidden holes where monsters lurk and wild imaginings drift dead men in to shore on slack-jawed tides and drag them out again, where gormless hagfish swirl and swim beneath the dark viridian of clinging kelp and bottle-blue Physalia, whose lethal droop of tentacles hangs low to drift, and s t i n g Recognized Earned A Seal Of Quality Author Notes Glossary Viscous: with a seemingly oily consistency Solipsistic: self-absorbed Viridian: blue-green Physalia: The Portuguese man-o'-war or blue bottle, a jellyfish-like marine organism whose tentacles deliver a painful and sometimes fatal sting. They are found in great numbers at certain times of the year, off the east coast of Australia. © Copyright 2025. tfawcus All rights reserved. tfawcus has granted FanStory.com, its affiliates and its syndicates non-exclusive rights to display this work.