Things We Will Forget about Whales
by Laura Budofsky Wisniewski
(published in Canary, Issue 47, Winter 2019-2020)
How the shy ones sang only in the green lagoons of their birth,
how they swam to the last northern light,
how they spoke in the pang of our language
though they longed for the sounds of each other,
how the mothers lifted the corpses
that we would see their sorrow,
and how at the end
they forgave us
as if we would live together
in a kingdom
of blue kindess,
endless.
