John Durban and Robert Pitman’s research shows orcas travel to warm waters in order to shed their skin, a process which would kill them if performed in the cold waters of their normal habitat.
Will we have the strength to foreshadow
these cloying memories?
Deep cold salt undertow,
we're building
separate waterproof futures.
Foundations only look back
but Eurydice is here, darling.
Vowels can brush without eyes
and I want to lead you
north with the orcas and we can
shed everyday scales:
begin anew in shared skin
with carelessly scattered breath.