ANOMALY by Matt Bialer My father used to say To see a new landscape You need new eyes We’re treasure hunters On the Baltic Sea Graveyard for shipwrecks Sunk over centuries Oldest remains Date back some 800 years 800 years Filled with fresh water run off From surrounding land Reduced salinity Inhospitable to shipworms Eat away at wrecks Helps preserve the wood 6300 wrecks In the database Of our vessel named Midas 200 ships On our watch list Known to have values Over 50 million dollars Salvaged 2400 bottles 100 year old champagne Small Swedish schooner Jonokoping Record breaking prices At Christies Silver And gold coins Faberge egg from one of the Tsars Glass bottle In Louise wreck Tens of thousands Of dollars Intact hulls And cargo Rigging details Doors In the dark Murky waters A vague mass Shimmies into view We’ve been out for 9 days Tired On our final run With sonar fish And PING Something shows up Side scan sonar: Gigantic, circular Not a ship wreck Shimmies into view To see a new landscape You need new eyes My father Also used to say One must Descend before rising Skinny Wild hair Baggy clothes Never wore socks Each morning Of my childhood At the top of the staircase Of our colonial house Adjusts the wire specs On his nose Hold out his fist I’d open it An ancient coin From his collection Puffs on a Pall Mall Superb ancient Greek silver tetrdrachm Obverse with head of sacred animal Of Apollo – The lion One of the old Greek colonies Of Southern Italy Rendered in bold High relief Puffs Such a magnificent aesthetic One of the most 3 dimensional And tactile coins Struck in the Greek classical period Chairman of the Archeology Department Northwestern University On the way to work Drops me off at school 1965 red Rambler Classic station wagon Puffing Adjusts his specs Smoke Books Files The wondrous marble statues Of gods, athletes, heroes Listens to 8 track tape Favorite opera Monteverdi’s Orfeo Favola in musica I will go safely to the deepest abyss I will bring you back with me To see the stars again One must Descend before rising I laugh What is it, a UFO? My partner Curtis On Midas - Maybe. Maybe You’re joking, right? - Well, what is it? - What is it? Sea Scan PC Unique ability To locate objects Near photographic quality Sound waves Instead of light Can see Much further in the water Can see 2 circular objects One of them 200 feet long Almost perfectly round Dome shaped Rock-like But not a rock formation A volcano? Rigid tail Or runway Going to And from cylinder shape 3800 feet long Extremely hard to photograph With conventional equipment Unpredictable Treacherous waters Black depths Darkling plain Gently undulating ridge Cloud of finest silt Rises up Silken tendrils Hanging motionless Looming in flashlights Can see A vague mass Shimmies into view Everything goes dark Electronic failure To see a new landscape You need new eyes When we get home We release a scan From the secret spot International waters Between Finland And Sweden Not an object That is man-made In modern times Ice Age Or pre-Ice Age Possibly 140,000 years old Rests upon 25 foot pillar Conditions at the sight poor Visibility low Abnormal radiation readings Pulsing a signal of 50 megahertz Switches off electronic equipment Cameras, laptops, satellite phones Below and above surface Something We’ve never seen before Temperature of the water Rises Is not a rock Not a solid block Of granite or some other stone Covered with thin layer of sediment Silt Nearly as thick as clay Appears to have Structural corridors Right angles Construction lines Boxes Gothic-like window Shaped forms A staircase With 8 even steps Something We’ve never seen before Looks like something burned Blackish powder Attracted to the camera No history of volcanoes In the area A staircase With 8 even steps A marine biologist Stockholm University It is not all surprising That you found these objects Nature can produce it itself Temperature of the water Rises Head of archeology Sweden’s Maritime Museum Side scan sonar Does not always Reflect what is on the sea floor Varying temperatures And wave conditions Can affect the image But the intriguing dimensions Capture my attention Capture my attention Need to go down there Get samples Samples One must Descend before rising Can see Can see Curtis tweets -Maybeitisspaceship Don’t do that Curtis - Why? Why? The public It’s a spaceship A marine version of Stonehenge A plug to the underworld They’re trying to cash in Cash in Taking tourists down Rip off My wife and I Get a call From our son’s school Want to talk to us About Jared 16 year old son Skinny Unwashed hair Dysgraphia and Dyslexia Smart but insecure Gets in trouble a lot Arrested for shoplifting Gamestop Our local mall With his drop out Older friends Bad crowd Now he made lewd gesture To a teacher Class jester - It was just my finger Captain Jack Stop calling me that Jack Sparrow Stop acting stupid - It was my finger Captain - Just my little finger One must Descend before rising Need to go down there Get samples Samples Gothic-like window Shaped forms A staircase With 8 even steps At the top of the staircase Of our colonial house Adjusts the wire specs On his nose Holds out his fist I’d open it One of the most Remarkable successors To King Alexander Lysimachos Thessalian stock Bodyguard of Great Macedonian king Razor sharp details Crowns, robes, scepters Drives me to school Red Rambler Puffing Adjusts his specs Few princes have ever lived With so great a passion For the building of cities Orfeo So he obtains grace In heaven Who down here has braved hell Let us rise Singing to heaven Something We’ve never seen before To see a new landscape You need new eyes Cloud of finest silt Rises up Silken tendrils Hanging motionless Looming in flashlights In the dark Murky waters A vague mass Shimmies into view Temperature of the water Rises We break off pieces From its surface Multi Beam images Infrared spectroscopy analysis Kimmel Center for Archeological Science Weizman Institute Made of limonite and goethite Of the opinion It is strange to find These materials In a structure like this Most likely found In a modern construction Strange to find These materials In a structure like this Another lab Marine biologist At Stockholm University Claims chemical composition Of the samples Resembles nodules Not uncommon In sea beds Including limonite and goethite Formed by nature itself Most of the samples Brought up Are red granite And sandstones Also a single loose piece Of basaltic or Volcanic rock Out of place On the sea floor But not unusual So heavily influenced By glacial thawing Transported By glaciers Cloud of finest silt Rises up Silken tendrils Hanging motionless Looming in flashlights We need to get a core sample From the inside A core sample Find out What it really is - Maybe even make some money - We’re losing money on this one A core sample Not just a diver with a drill A big machine Powered by hydraulics Bolted to it Huge operation Cost a fortune Team of saturation divers - We can’t afford to do this - Better be worth it High capability Remotely Operated Vehicle ROV To find a spot to drill Drill A core sample Wait for better weather Find out What it really is Our son caught Shop lifting again Best Buy A camera You can’t just take stuff How stupid can you be? - You go on ships you’re not supposed to - You’re embarrassing me with this UFO shit Visit his guidance counselor Disrupts class Doesn’t listen Failing grades I tell him he’s a smart kid Embarrassed by his disability Compensates Has to be liked Smokes weed And who knows what With troubled older boys We feel very disconnected Should we ground him? Doesn’t seem to work The counselor says Don’t punish him Get him to understand Make him see Love him more than ever Temperature of the water Rises My father started To talk about Atlantis Non stop An obsession Atlantis - Daddy, isn’t that where Aquaman is from? No, because Atlantis Really existed Lost continent Powerful empire Located to the west Of the pillars of Hercules Capital city A marvel of architecture and engineering Circles At the very center A hill And a temple to Poseidon It’s not make believe It really existed They’re thwarting my research Drives me to school Puffing Looks at me in rear view mirror His thick eye brows Gesticulates Catastrophic end It’s not At the Straight of Gibraltar No one’s looking In the right place It’s not off The coast of Spain In the marshlands The ruins of a city Discovered off the coast Of the Baltic Sea Unbelievable to the people Who found them Didn’t know city Of this magnitude existed The tale of the city Spread over the whole of Europe The builders were giants Gods or demi-Gods The King’s castle in the middle Of the circle Sank again During a flood Sank The walls burst Whole island It’s in the Baltic They’re all wrong The Baltic yes Orfeo So goes one who does not retreat At the call of the eternal light Who down here has braved hell They remove my father From the chairmanship Of the department Remove him Step down One night I am lying in bed I hear my parents argue He storms out Sniffles And drives off Foggy rainy night Drives off Never seen again No trace Not even the Rambler No trace Gone Cloud of finest silt Rises up Silken tendrils Hanging motionless Looming in flashlights To see a new landscape You need new eyes We’re back at the spot To get the core samples And Blue View sonar 3D Multi-Beam Dome shaped piece That protrudes From the object 90 degree corners That do not normally occur In nature Round hole In the interior Right angles Smooth surface Cavity-like corridors Remote robotic footage Looks like text or writing 6 NATO vessels Off in the distance One Swedish Navy vessel Comes very close to us We call them We have divers And equipment down there You’re getting to close 6 war ships Including 2 American ones DU MASTA LAMNA YOU MUST LEAVE ADV. OMEDLEBART. GENAIT IMMEDIATELY MUST LEAVE Clouds of finest silt Rises up Silken tendrils Hanging motionless Looming in flashlights When I’m at the airport To go home I get a call Scuba divers Cleaning up Baldwin Lake Found at the bottom Rusted in the mud 1965 red Rambler Classic station wagon Submerged since early 70s Muddy But could read the license plate Floated it to the surface With airbags To the surface One must Descend before rising Rise I
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