Urban Habitat

Thanks, ChatGPT, for the random word choice today!

The jellis blopped along in the top three inches of water, their luminous blues and yellows pinging like stars. I imagined they could see their own reflections in my eyes as I watched, amazed and soothed, as they lived their watery, gelatinous lives full of light with me among them, like I wasn’t even there. Here we were thinking we humans ruled the earth, that the earth would ever bend to our wills or woes; meanwhile glowing blob-stars proliferate through the ocean, the vast majority of our planet, doing their own thing that we barely truly understand.