Hydrophilous Brood

Shimmering scales, soft glow and bulbous enamor A smooth touch of the growths beneath the waters Doctored by interdimensional waves Caressed by the tribes, menagerie of ex-military, scientists, thieves, and prison world sentinels, sentinels Derelict ships in the aqueducts Minerals, bodies, and metals collide Bubbles erupt from lurkers below Seafoam flickering with various bodily fluids Tendril, pili, mandibular palps Antennae, chrome exopod, nanowire Nanowire dopamine Tasting another world, salivary gel synthesized Synthesized and manifested Engineers racing against the deep water fiends The evolution culminates together A world of curiosity and oddity Victorious of purpose, laborious in its pursuit To wet the brain of the fallen By the touch of here Rejuvenated By the luscious leaves Iridescent Incoherent voices murmur One must submerge A new appendage grows with a tickling sensation Unknown nerves Diatoms amalgamate Diatoms amalgamate Lighten, lighten Seek, seek the temple and the incarnations Incarnation extrapolated Tropical, hidrotic aromas emanate Whispers and chants spring To learn a new language Submerge deeper, eat the light Fins creep Creep

Studying the deeds of past selves, looking for revelations to reach a physical world Fabric slice reality’s deglamer Seize all warm bodies in sight A pale, blue lure Display promises of paradise Then rip and dismember with precision Searing laser paired with bladed tarsus An obsession born from consequential bioshift Equipped with new talents and tools to learn, must experiment Medical atrocities inside vanishing portal laboratories, laboratories Beginnings Fascinated with any living being it sets its eyes on now Pursuit Journeying the worlds, developing skills, a purity sweet, slice Ruthless movement, no armor unpierced Driftmoth Vivisector Evolve Belief Creative touch Improvisational elegance One of one, witness Next cut, with grace Next jump, no psionic battery Fabric slice reality’s deglamer Lower shade with a brighter, blue lure Glowing glimpses, regimental artistry Driftmoth Vivisector Further into obscure beings Annexing, indexing Reaching status of a god, those believe One of one, a following Next cut, instructing

Explore Explore The filament Crawling in a haze, maze of consumptive goo Relay message to the pilot, incremental influence of sickness, sickness It spreads Blight reversal systems engaged, unknown object pulsing inside Taciturn messenger with cravings, undenied Nanodeceiver bolstered by blood and water Synthetic or not, it will thrive, copacetic host Deploy any navigators, keep the virus from the brain Breathe deep, pill bug down, wait for recalibration Calculate countermeasures, tingling mixture Intravenous specimen Unnerve, merge Calibration instilled, instilled Mimeofactured virus in multifarious order Morphing into new elite, self-engineered corrosives Not unlike nature, the biohybrid adapter Crumble Delayed message to the pilot, insurmountable confluence to harness Beyond salvation, this vessel cannot withstand Blight visions replay, disowned body convulsing in brine Irreversible damage complete in time

Anomalous trawl revealing floodpits, old creation Reel it in, large fragment of mossy steel, seafloor disguise Rows of filmy barnacles, faint glow of light beneath, slowly blinking blue Subsea Further submersion required, assemble channels of fathom seers, ruin divers, and lastly lucid dream engineers Deep operatives of reality and dreams Benthic Umbilicus Navigating the sludge Dank, root-made maze Coralsmiths lurking, approaching with suspicion Tendrils refract Enclave darting, surrounding us Scattering strokes of ambush, sinister dashes of calculated stabs Telekinetic tanglers Drowners guiding us down a gullet, fin blades locked into our suits and skin Inescapable tricksters, force feed Dream engineers stay wary, yet ready to engage in the astral slipstream Descend Blue dream Deceptive visions flood and mesmerize Dreamtide speakers Shape pseudowater Hypnotic thirst Breathing false air and water even in this astral state, lucidity reversed causing insanity to weigh down A large gullet will be an intruder’s watery grave, forever ensnared in a benthic nightmare Swallowed by something unknown, it plumbs the depths of oceans and the Psyche Body and mind digested Umbilicus Metabolize Benthic Umbilicus Benthic Umbilicus Feed on the rest

Remnants of life and death and beyond Constructed by ancient fire and ice and steel and potions unknown Fluids melded deep Fluids in my sleep Thaumaturgic destination revealed Atoms split, mind sprung from the cauldron Self sacrifice unintended Oolech overdose No longer a body, now inanimate, a weapon of some sort Or a utensil for specific forms of mastication Perhaps I am both, but why can I think Cursed Object Void of nerve endings Destined for utility Rigid, yet pliable, intrepid Transfiguration unchangeable Acceptance Into the guts of my wielder’s enemies The mouths of warriors elite Slashing and prodding beasts with ease A feast far from home, forever long gone Gone forever Unheard scream from a sharp blade, life thrown away Bittersweet existence Eaten from mortality Shine Concede Bittersweet existence Eaten from mortality

Remains of the exiled, scattered into the waters of strange worlds Years later, wet surfacing New larvae, new food chain Frenzy in the deep, deep Distribution in the flow of parasitic waters, streams nurture Receive Special plating Impervious to weapons New brood, designed to take pain New reign Next phase to develop, bend dreams by agency of water Imprinting from cohabitants Disembark now Disembark now Exceeding trajectory Ability to travel from bodies of water, one world to another No matter the distance or size, a metastasis Hydrophilous omnipresence Bathe in us Drink from us

Syphon death Leftovers miasmic Beyond the blood, beyond any armor Exhaustive procession, a blessing gift-wrapped Hivemind social structure It’s your memories we want After you’re long gone, cinema exmortal Brain sing, preserved for our own methods Encrusted gems flicker, tinker with the fallen Dead or near-dead, no difference Abundance Of the drowned and eaten After submersible circumstance Extracting, extracting It’s peaceful No one hinders Never tired Of feeding Consuming Consign memory to our own, drone Post-mortal squelch, why Liquidity You are remembered