Whale Bones
Whale Bones

Whale Bones

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The forest is a beach, the hill a shoreline, this fallen tree a whale.  The current has carried the whale’s remains to this sheltered spot, where the wind rattles the dry, bleached bones.  When I step into its belly, sharp ends of broken ribs scratch at my legs.

 

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