Whale in it’s watershed dreaming
of an answer to extinction
forty million years feeling
its own weight floating
Whale slaves to waters surface
a warm blooded mammal breathing
an easy death target floating
Whale gathers blue crab traps caught in
fishing nets plastic floats, plastic bags
human garbage ornaments unpleasant
knickknacks unsought after yet
unable to free itself - irritated
Whale dreams
of thin waterless air
itself a delicate
creature flying
Scattering sea life
in tail flukes wake
whale plummets
a silent world - moaning
of fear - of protest
of a time before ships
and sailors drowning
To sustain the species
its land ancestry beckons
a huge leviathan force
lurches towards waters edge
Whale beaches itself
dreaming of evolution
About the Creator
Jan Portugal
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Death is a black hole. Think about it. A black hole is the corpse of a star, something once warm and bright, now come to the end of its life cycle. But some will argue that the cycle of life does not end with death. That death is merely another path we must walk once our bodies expire and our souls ascend. In that moment, when the fuel in the star’s chemical tank hits empty and the shiny matte coat explodes into supernova, the mass left behind – the corpse – becomes a black hole. We understand that, around such a vast cadaver, dimensions work a little differently in death to the way we’re used to in life. For example, light cannot escape the pull of a black hole when it hits the point of no return. That’s where it gets its colour. Space itself is contorted by a black hole. That’s where it gets its funny shape. Even time. Time slows right down the closer you get to it. The closer you get to a black hole. The closer you get to death.
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