even deeper—you go to work / burrow into the sand

                   spit up coils, and coils / shaped like 

murukku, your spirals / remind

how to retract:

be everywhere & yet notoriously hard / to find

lug worms / 20cm deep / earth worms of the sea / or

                   inter-tidal movement workers

how to / take shape / in the u

rippled and reworked: guttural topography

                   you feed then / digest / excrete in

u: the shape of your burrow / bioturbating / u

the combination of elements / u the curve

                   non-linear / from u to spiral / you, and your billion kin 

a gathering / u: recycle the surface / against / extraction / dredging empire

u: keeping our grounds / rich

                   is oxygen / loosen sediment / aerate our sands / u / overturn

yours / the decay / what is / a “unlawful assembly area” / rise like

mounds accrue / the way / you pump water / to / (re) emerge /

                   regenerative / u: contained / our bioengineer / muddied

good / sentient relation / u / multitude / gills feathered / tomorrow’s

catalyst for breath / community tidal flats gardener / u: becoming / we

                   risking hope / u / permeate us / retract, unorder / show us

your sanctuaries / connect / all / the u / filtering / the tidal waters

calling / u: burrow architecture / here / my soft / steady love / press

                   upon me / echoes in / nutrients twisted / movement traced to

other soils / & you recall / tidal / are the relations / that lug for / the u.