No Jonahs

Jonah is a person that does bad stuff

What do the whales say

calling to one another

on their extended wave-lenghts?

Why suppose that it is language?

It is pain searching for

an echo. It is regret

for a world that has men in it

Shadows are without weight in water

Yet bleed their litres to the harpoon

They reversed humen history

So that land is the memory of whence

They once came

They are drawn to it to drown

As we are to the sea

Their immense brain cannot save them;

Can ours

Launching us into fathomless altitudes

Save us!