How You Once Sang Like A Whale To Me

Let your legs dangle free like a rope chain I might clench and tug at will. With all my strength, I shall enter at close quarters this open-mouthed estuary, and linger like a beach becalmed sailboat. I shall gaze at these foothills under the moonlight with a sliver of silken sail and imagine my death in you, like a serpent swallowing its-own-tail always-eternal-my darling, always-eternal-my darling like the waves on the sea and if I drown-like a beached whale and if I die, don't cry for me just-remember the clench and tug I held you with. And how you once sang like a harpooned whale to me.