Slow season got slower

a visitor named covid was

lurking unwanted

tourists were denied

they might be enablers of the dread

 

the humpbacks

on their own annual tour

dined on Alaskan krill

far from their winter playground

and were missed

a whale statue

dramatic

breaching

poignant

stood in Wailea

unnoticed

unadorned except for bird waste

and thus the man with the powerwasher

adorned as he was in body suit

and full-time job

powered the blue metal clean

carefully

soothingly

thoroughly

as if paid by the hour

 

for whose benefit I could not say

the whale perhaps a talisman of commerce

of things past and hopes of profit returning

a rabbit’s foot of faith

Leviathans that bring foot traffic are always welcome