Gull

It plunges headfirst
into the tar-black sea,
a waterproofed sun
cutting through layers

of liquidised atoms.
Observe its skull: a bony
periscope, rubber coated.
Nothing can puncture it.

Watch how it hunts:
A film without pause. Do
not blink. There is no fast
forward here.

Jettisoned by the sea,
it flies back. Perhaps one day
something will crush it.
But that is not today