“Breaking the surface”

... or trying at least; burning
rays coiling light-years
away; stand-still fattening in
an ozone-layer –

unmoved, undisturbed, unmasked
surface yet conscious –
snapping into a camouflaged,
patient poker-face –

eye-lids forming two dashes;
useless adjectives,
useful nouns breaking the surface;
poker-face eye-lids

unmoved, undisturbed, unmasked;
useful nouns breaking the surface...