Electric Eels

Blue, blue light

Spills through the curtain

The city makes its bed

Under sheets of rain

What if the rain

Never subsides

And sandbanks shift over

Traffic lights?

We would awake where the morays sleep

Electric eels around our bed

What if the rain

Never subsides

And the city sinks below

An under-wave?

Shoals of silverfish

Break the surface water

Over the city hall

And the arcade

And manta rays

Glide down the motorway

Electric eels around our bed

Et tu deviens

Une inondation

Et tu deviens

Une flotte