Thank you to Jennifer Dotson of Highland Park Poetry for publishing my poem in the
Water Issue.

http://highlandparkpoetry.org

Wailing

The whales returned our legacy,

after each had lost at least one child

to the shallow zone,

where the young ones drowned;

their internal organs collapsed.

Returned all

that never should have been

scattered deep

on sea beds in the first place:

car engines,

the remains of buckets,

shrimp fishing nets,

waste, plastic and steel.

They carried all

up from the depths,

and placed upon

our shores our shame

and the evidence

of the greed of our kind.

It is our turn to act.