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said the humpback
as it slapped in shining skin
and rolled a fin-swell
out of sea
which foamed in sprayed answer
to a rush-breaking breach, each a search
for the lift of a body
which
said the whale
is how all questions begin
in drawing us up
to a crossing
on a rich tide that tugs
across bubbling fathoms
and speaks as the sky
in whales rising.
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