Neptune

Dunking jams jars into the sea
the slot binoculars held my image,


as I came to the shore
In days of linear quiet

flat, shaken, mediocre,
so the ritual went,

in falling rain and white noise
the sea eye looked upwards,

as I picked up the jar named 'endless flat'
and with a maddening sense of disquiet

I gulped the salt water quick,
winced,

and I felt nothing at all.