Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Gray Whale, After Wallace Stevens and ending with a line from Rilke
Written for the City of Vancouver’s Greenest City initiative to become the Greenest City in the World by 2020 and in recognition of the gray whale that swam into Downtown Vancouver on May 5th 2010
1
An armoured lung,
a living castle of barnacle
and bone; a peaceful
leviathan moving with
the ease of a dark cloud.
2
The child knows more
about [...]
