What Is Love? (Hour 10) Pams
She began her tour of Grief
as doom clouds
enveloped
the waters
off Puget Sound,
shrouding it
in white foam,
mirroring
the sky
where clouds
of smoke
and a complex mix
of menacing seas
bury
the Orcas
below.
They are hunting,
their clicking sounds,
searching
like a flashlight, the only sound
in the chilly
depths
where they
try to sink
their white sharp teeth
into the fatty
coral-colored flesh
of the King Salmon.
As the waters start warming
and the salmon die off,
a female Orca nicknamed Tahlequah
swims 1,000 miles before
dropping her dead calf which she’s
been pushing with her head,
in an unprecedented 17-day show
of mourning.
