Sparus by Tolu Oloruntoba

Sparus                                                                                                                 

  by Tolu Oloruntoba

for Anthony Bourdain

(published in Under a Warm Green Linden, Issue 6, 2018)

This neural mesh, the coral brain of sads, knows

when another of us is sunk. Some speak of Grey Goo,

the mitotic mush that will eat the world. It already

has, and the Sertraline suds of our sewers

have not washed away

the denticulate scum, the flocculant armor, the rafted ...