Water from the blowhole
fell like a tepid rain.
The great unblinking eye,
the lateral roll,
scissoring of its jaw
and I was his.
Arch of rib and vertebrae
became my cathedral.
Massive heart like a hammer
I could hear blood rush,
the billow of lungs expand
when it rose to the surface.
I climbed the barnacled
tongue to suck gill-slit
puffer fish caught
in the sieve of baleen
Three days in the bowels
of Sheol and I am disgorged.
All -foured in obeisance,
I set my jaw toward Nineveh
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