A Cardinal Articulation

for ORP ~ 


Once uponamotapoeia 
on an automatic diuretic 
of Cephalopod ink left behind 
as smokescreen signatures impressed 
upon the rest of us in a trademark designation 
branded on our consciousness 
down along the generations 
held in polygrammatic identification 
designed to erase even the memory 
of our cooperation with the order of 
Actinocerida swooped in surreptitiously 
from adverse exultancy into our considerable 
current Kingdom of Animalia so long ago 
the last traces of token petrification were 
swallowed whole by the no longer hollow 
pockets trampled underneath the massaging feet 
of a thousand generations of ancestral viticulturists 
distilling the decoction of philosophical oblivion 
heedless to the exact nature of the pact between us 
and our segregated underlord masters 
who remain sequestered below 
at an atmospheric pressure 
shrouded in hermetical mystery 
in their own spectral undercover realm 
so private and secluded as to prevail unrevealed 
after all these many twisting years 
coiling in a braided helical spiral gyration 
driven by the twin electromagnetic engines of creation 
which are the provenance for the wellspring of the origin 
of our induction into causality as drawn through 
the incomprehensible point of ingress 
which remains the mark transfigured 
into the wave of being 
our multitentacular forebears 
are yet in the process of undergoing 
during the metamorphosis of our dotage 
pivotal to the recurrent flowering 
of the perennial anatomical plasmic 
constitution auxiliary to our fundamental 
existence planted on the firmament 
of this natural world in chronic 
perseverance against all odds 
to distinguish the difference allowed 
for the benefit of our dissimilarity 
between us here and now 
that propels the interaction 
necessary for the propagation 
of our marathon engagement 
with variations of genetic evidence 
overlapping to effectively create 
a scaled collective armoring 
having crossed the monstrous gap 
enclosed between meaningful exchanges 
of glances between us so bright 
as to be noticed halfway around the world 
despite dreaming hard with eyes shut 
ever so tight against the phosphenes 
generated by atmospheric pressure 
upon all living eyeballs extrapolated 
from the underpinning protoplasmic 
substructure which reached out 
so long ago having spanned 
to this day with extended sinews 
across a bone web of nerves 
constantly growing one cell at a time 
over the shifting allotment of seasons 
inherent to the age of static 
we are all presently held in thrall to 
while literally being framed 
into a solid painting 
as eternal as the most fleeting 
minuscule particle of matter 
that ever signified the integral 
value implied by the meaning 
symbolized at the heart 
of an Octopus.