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David Kirkby's avatar

Beautiful, Rebecca!! I really enjoyed reading that. I have a whale poem too. Sadly, I can't share it right now because it is entered in a poetry comp. My latest poem does have a"whale mention," but that's not quite the same thing....

Poems are like whales though, I always feel. A great weight and bulk moving beneath the surface of consciousness - a mass of unseen life - and then when you least expect, it breaches, leaping into view......

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Holly Starley's avatar

Well, this is gorgeous. "A tooth in a landscape of tongues." That phrase/image will stay with me. That and salt and sand and bodies collapsing in on themselves.

Also, I love the rib-shaped structure of this poem.

And also, thank you so much for pointing people to my piece. It's been among my favorites to write recently.

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