Bulbs of lungs that do not breathe,
huge saurian head, fierce
with Jurassic time, you rehearse
the archaic, invisible, unseeing
or looking inwards, you are
parasitic in the floating world
you’ve created, with enzymes
you’ve dissolved tissues to get bloodfood
The brain glimmers through
translucent skin, the delicate tree of veins
Organs migrate through you
you’re imagining
a different order we have already
placed ourselves within
and are busy being changed by
Tail, ribs unfurl, condense to bone
you raise a big head
Who can recognize you, already
remote, already human, your heart
a balloon on a string
oh little one?
(For Adrian)