THE WHALE ROAD

Along the wave front, seeing down into the water and through the sky, we swam after the whales, who lived in some place beyond the curvature of the land and below the surface. I could see the vapors meet the sea, and the great violence of their intercourse. There is endless war and burgeoning life at the intersection of two great bodies. A nymph led me along the whale road, though at times I was separated from her by an enormous swell of rolling blue, and I was left only with my fear and exposure to the vastness.

At last I saw the whales, blue on blue, off the rocky promontory.