sudden storm & whalelet [aug. 9 in for aug. 8]

yesterday we had a sudden afternoon rainstorm. then at night my computer got frozen! so i could not post. but i did write a little bit about a creature i've named a whalelet. or a whelky. or a seed whale. half-whale half-person. for the Awesome Poem Group that i meet up with lately--the assigment being to write about a fantastic creature in an ordinary setting. i don't think that's what i did, but i did something. notes. everything, everything is notes.












The Whalelet, The Seed Whale, and The Whelky




Weird, the whalelet and the seed whale and the whelky—

The whalelet dined on flowers.

The seed whale ate star matter.

The whelky caught brilliant muddy bubbles while lying on his side—


The whalelet came to openness as a result of his nutrition. As a whale, he sat painlessly under trees. He waited for sudden rainstorms to come along and blow the leaves out of the tree. His favorite feeling was when wet leaves were stuck all over his skin.

The seed whale discovered his talent was connectivity, as in electric star currents and building blocks. He loved watching the snow carry the moon because that is what it did. He was invisible. He’s invisible still. He is not visible.

The whelky, funny, came to emptiness as a result of his eating habits. As such, he sang a little song:

If I let myself, I will be let
Trees are letting us let ourselves
Someone or something created that
I am shards of proudness

I will let you and let you again
The open wideness the wideness opens
I have disappeared into what reappears later, leaping
And I will let you leaping let you leaping let you—letyouletyouletyou, leaping

Sudden mind.
Let go.
Good retreat into ebb & flow!