Sting

"Bluebottle Jellyfish"

[...]
little deadly
pillows
that roll
in surf
until
one drifts
lashing
a surfer's leg
the silk
fine
cat-o'-nine
tail
tentacles
become
laces
of indigo pain.

Robert Adamson Waving to Hart Crane

When I first read this poem, I was left with the image of a pattern of blue welts on skin because I had read "lace" (singular) which I took to be a reference to the delicate result of contact. A second reading and I realize that the "laces" (plural) belong to the animal inflicting the pain.

And so for day 1262
28.05.2010