Jellyfish
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Among the most beautiful, as well as the most common, of the marine animals which are to be met with upon our coasts are the jelly-fish… And in the memories of most of us is there not associated with the picture of breaking waves and sea-birds floating indifferently in the blue sky or on the water still more blue, the thoughts of many a ramble among the weedy rocks and living pools, where for the time being we all become naturalists, and where those who least know what they are likely to find in their search are most likely to approach the keen happiness of childhood? If so, the image of those crystal globes pulsating with life and gleaming with all the colors of the rainbow are perhaps the most strange, and certainly in my estimation the most delicately lovely creatures in the world.
―Jelly-fish, Star-fish and Sea-Urchins: Being a Research on Primitive Nervous Systems, 1885
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Visible, invisible,
A fluctuating charm,
An amber-colored amethyst
Inhabits it; your arm
Approaches, and
It opens and
It closes;
You have meant
To catch it,
And it shrivels;
You abandon
Your intent—
It opens, and it
Closes and you
Reach for it—
The blue
Surrounding it
Grows cloudy, and
It floats away
From you.
―Marianne Moore
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