Upon Witnessing an Exploding Whale
one breach — roll along shore hem
harpoon-sea ebbed and resolved from puncture dews our
calves blunt cold, gaze fat with sex and cool america —
gravity imbibed heaps meat after loam, salt from our napes
lulled to a gaping mouth pulls mucus to spit
kids, pick ligaments in the shape of broken cliffs
dignified, dig your foot here to mark the shooting rib
speary in earnest — catch blubber on tongue
body of water, water my whole unbirths pique clean
these knees heft from carrying bone tapers a swallowed vista
my soul, I repeat my soul, your arms are flimsy from too much dynamite
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