Grey whale,
once there is no more left of you than an image
of the dark shape that moved on the waters
in animal paradise,
once there is no memory,
no legend to log your life and its passage
because there is no sea where your death will fit,
I want to set these few words
on your watery grave:
‘Grey whale,
show us the way to another fate.’
Aridjis, Homero. “Grey Whale.” Trans. George McWhirter and Betty Ferber. Eyes to See Otherwise: Selected Poems = Ojos, de otro mirar. Eds. Betty Ferber and George McWhirter. New York: New Directions Book, 2002. p. 207.
