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whale-watching season


 

Whale breaches still waters

spraying mist into the twilight. 

 

Oil seeps through grill’s crevices 

onto bright glowing briquettes, as 

 

Beef sizzles to unfolding drama, 

surrounded by awe and wonder;

 

Hooked by the vast expanse 

of the Outback and the Sea.

 

 

 

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whaleoilbeefhooked

sea to song

effective myth, metaphor, & mysticism transcend

semantic efforts to articulate dynamics erupting

dreamlike amidst more trusted, linear conceptions

of reality, imagination, experience, & being

 

by presenting arrangements so engaging, uncannily

familiar, irreducibly insightful, idealogically slippery,

that the foamsplash suddenness of its crashing

across a previously unnotic...

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metaphormysticismmythoceansoulspiritwhale

leviathan

this is a troublesome little one, I can't really decide if it's a keeper or set for the knackers yard

 

oh leviathan

dashed, bereft, under hanging skies
that mirror your sagging pall
I stand, Ishmael, to your bloody demise

amidst the niveous fulminating
and hovering nebs
where Neptune  chose to serve your ruin

fit for its absolute picking
by those who need and others that greed
...

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