Species Of Wondering

Published on a fever shore
the stock strand mammals
milk another sonic lung.

These are the suffering hours,
the damage of a dying cough
crack the security of doctors.

The skin of summer pulses,
the radiation whales of old
may winter another sun.

-- Rebecca Eddy

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