Chosen.Down in the deep, swimming with the dead, The whale has stayed too long, praying. It is cold, and black, and now she's blind with fear. Her lungs are bursting. She must have air. The climb is steep, perilous. If she does not rise and take the light, Pressure will crush the heart. She rolls her humpback humpback: see hunchback. three times over in fierce ascent, And then she blows, Ambergris ambergris (ăm`bərgrēs), waxlike substance originating as a morbid concretion in the intestine of the sperm whale. Lighter than water, it is found floating on tropical seas or cast up on the shore in yellow, gray, black, or variegated and bottom fish, Gushing gush v. gushed, gush·ing, gush·es v.intr. 1. To flow forth suddenly in great volume: water gushing from a hydrant. 2. oil and gushing mud, Dating back to Noah's Flood. The skies erupt with a murderous streak in heaven's hide, The aftershock af·ter·shock n. 1. A quake of lesser magnitude, usually one of a series, following a large earthquake in the same area. 2. of genocide, A long time ago. When this whale was in her infancy, a mere ten ton, She was chosen by the Holy One To lift the Ark on her wide back, And carry me home. So it was done. Now one eye gleaming, slant eye beaming, She circles my ship, stately and slow. With a queenly queen·ly adj. queen·li·er, queen·li·est 1. Having the status or rank of queen. 2. Of, resembling, or befitting a queen; majestic and regal. adv. In a royal way; regally. grin and a mock attack, She hurls her body over my back And swallows sun. Jump into the sea, she cries, and play with me. Leap onto my hump, and ride. And when you do, we will sing with God. Allan Douglas Coleman |
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