The Second Coming

Turning and turning in the widening gyre   

The falcon cannot hear the falconer; 

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; 

Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, 

The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere   

The ceremony of innocence is drowned; 

The best lack all conviction, while the worst   

Are full of passionate intensity. 

Surely some revelation is at hand; 

Surely the Second Coming is at hand.   

The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out   

When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi 

Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert   

A shape with lion body and the head of a man,   

A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,   

Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it   

Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.   

The darkness drops again; but now I know   

That twenty centuries of stony sleep 

Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,   

And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,   

Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born? 

William Butler Yeats

Inner Planetary Travels in the seas of North Carolina

I went looking for Him
And lost myself; 
The dropp merged with the Sea -
Who can find it now? 

Looking and looking for Him
I lost myself; 
The Sea merged with the dropp -
Who can find it now? 
Kabir   

   A colony of hydroids, each animal perhaps a millimeter in diameter. They glean their sustenance from the passing currents. Life’s better out here when things are hydrated, not oiled.

Inner Planetary Travel. Telestos on the Spar Wreck. Everything out here lives better when hydrated ,and not oiled.

Inner Planetary Travels  off the coast of North Carolina

Inner Planetary Travels. Seascapes in the waters off Southeastern North Carolina. Everything works better out here when it's hydrated, not oiled.

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InnerPlanetaryTravel. An Arrow Crab makes itself at home inside a sponge. It's always better out here when everything is hydrated and not oiled.

Inner Planetary Travel in Worm Country. Christmas Tree Worms in the waters off SE North Carolina. Life's better out here when everything is hydrated, not oiled.

Inner Planetary Travel. Sea Nettles, SE North Carolina. It works better out here when things are hydrated, not oiled.

Inner planetary Travels. Crevalle Jack SE North Carolina

Beauty — be not caused — It Is —
Chase it, and it ceases —
Chase it not, and it abides —
Emily Dickinson

Inner Planetary Travels. A young Green Turtle, about 60cm, foraging along the reef. It may take a Green Turtle from 20 to 50 years to reach sexual maturity. Aside from  general predation from other marine life, and humans, they are vulnerable to man-made plastic pollution loose upon the seas, much of which resembles the food that they eat. Things work better out here when we are mindful of our habits, and how we dispose of our waste. 

Inner Planetary Travel. In the world of the worms. The Bearded Fireworm (Hermodice carunculata). Common to tropical Atlantic waters, it is also resident in the seas off SE North Carolina. It's better out here when things are hydrated, not oiled. (Hermodice carunculata

Inner Planetary Travel. The way in. It's always better out here when things are hydrated, not oiled.

Inner Planetary Travel. Julep doing hard time in the Big Blue.

Inner Planetary Travel. A Brittle Star awaits the dark. It's better out here when things are hydrated, not oiled. 

Inner Planetary Travel. Julep. Doing hard time in the Big Blue.

Inner Planetary Travel in the waters off North Carolina. It's better out here when things are hydrated, not oiled, and locals like it quiet.

Inner Planetary Travel. Diamonds from the Mind. Mycetophyllia ferox or Rough Cactus Coral. 

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Inner Planetary Travels. Lettuce Sea Slug, Bonaire 2016

Inner Planetary Travels. Reef scenes; at the drop-off. Bonaire 2016

Inner Planetary Travel. Guess who's coming to dinner? An Iguana and Blue Whiptail drop by for a visit.

Inner Planetary Travels. Julep, Bonaire 2016