"wielding his burning underwater torch"
Moore, Martelli, Lax, Kaneko, Martin
Marianne Moore:
Jennifer Martelli:
Robert Lax:
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Mitsuharu Kaneko (tr. from Japanese by Hiroaki Sato):
Carl Martin:
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Jellyfish make lovely images and I enjoy the different nexuses of contexts in the poems. In this octopi are similarly a lovely image.