Slow season got slower<\/p>\n
a visitor named covid was<\/p>\n
lurking unwanted<\/p>\n
tourists were denied<\/p>\n
they might be enablers of the dread<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
the humpbacks<\/p>\n
on their own annual tour<\/p>\n
dined on Alaskan krill<\/p>\n
far from their winter playground<\/p>\n
and were missed<\/p>\n
a whale statue<\/p>\n
dramatic<\/p>\n
breaching<\/p>\n
poignant<\/p>\n
stood in Wailea<\/p>\n
unnoticed<\/p>\n
unadorned except for bird waste<\/p>\n
and thus the man with the powerwasher<\/p>\n
adorned as he was in body suit<\/p>\n
and full-time job<\/p>\n
powered the blue metal clean<\/p>\n
carefully<\/p>\n
soothingly<\/p>\n
thoroughly<\/p>\n
as if paid by the hour<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
for whose benefit I could not say<\/p>\n
the whale perhaps a talisman of commerce<\/p>\n
of things past and hopes of profit returning<\/p>\n
a rabbit’s foot of faith<\/p>\n
Leviathans that bring foot traffic are always welcome<\/p>\n
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