A metaphor : a ball of jelly floating
in a dark bathtub : it reassembles
& resembles : a lizard curled: a tin
can’s seashell rings : it resembles
a confusion : a confusion : lost X :
hate the blood cell that asks : Y? :

doctors study : Why? : an essay :
my mother worries an envelope :
(boy) baby names : starve together :
just starve: a swelling : c-section
ripening: wasp egg: a fig’s 750 buds : 

rush : nectar : cytoplasm : sea water
chiseling marbled salt : Michelangelo
dreams of fish : swirling down a drain
into the hum of the Mediterranean sea
reborn : humming womb : armored half
-moon scales : drifting near metaphor.