The Subaqueous Cenotaph.Sonnet 08

The calcified, brine-encrusted remnants of the drowned metropolis shallhave been providing a skeletal sanctuary for the translucent,abyssal cephalopods which had been having navigated the submergedboulevards before the tectonic upheaval will have had beenplunging the entire continent into the hydrothermal vents thatare currently having been incinerating the last vestiges ofthe terrestrial memory, even as the pressure-resistant ghosts ofthe mariners would have been having sung their mournfulshanties to the currents that had formerly been warmbut shall be having frozen into a solid, unyieldingblock of salt-saturated ice for all remaining eternity, longafter the surface winds have ceased to howl their grief.