Slime a conscious kind shivers delicately a thousand bodies shrink in a state of vulnerable exposure upended in a rough hand just curious not unkind in the same way crushing an egg or snapping a thin bone is too rough too brute just casual in the tearing of a cling film or a web that one can barely see unless observed up close to a naked eye which is never naked never anything less than shielded from being seen back into and understood as the thing being observed is forced to reveal its secrets and the seal broken means there is no putting things back the way they were the intrusion is so massive and the deep study is over in a second and the rock is left to dry in the sun
(2010)
