Whale Poetry

 

On Becoming

 Should I become

Driftwood

Or the sea

The shore 

Or the rip tide?

Should I be

The storm

Or the rain

The cloud

Or the wind?

Should I 

Thunder

Or fly

Strike down

Or light up?

Won't you tell me?

Nature is not a metaphor 

For my emotions

For capitalism

For meaning

For poetry

This emptied gulf

This plastic dotted beach

"Inside opening out

Outside opening in"

I am, at once, at once