Slowly being comforted by leaves
the shot silk shirt of patience
left hanging on the line overnight
looks dry enough to wear again
even if now pitted with ash
and bone shards from the rain
when he who left it here returns
I’d like to ask him if
this current oil spillage couldn’t
be like the furious bull whale
that sunk the Essex in 1820
nature retaliating
sending a message
with still some time to turn away
from the cannibalism
we know will follow.
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