Within the deepest creases, out of sight,
You glide along the ocean’s murky floor;
Surviving in the darkest realms of night,
Your body writhes above a sticky maw.
Then when we drag your carcasses ashore,
We prod and poke to see what we might find;
And like the sailors who did come before,
We read the maps your body leaves behind.
So whilst we cannot see we are no longer blind.
A group of Pseudoliparis swirei sp. nov. at 7485 m (Photo Credit: Mackenzie Gerringer, et al.).
This is a Spenserian Stanza, inspired by recent research which has discovered the ocean’s deepest fish, Pseudoliparis swirei sp. nov. a new species
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