A poem inspired by an article about the Greenland shark.
See this wonderful article for the inspiration for this poem.
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v42/n09/katherine-rundell/consider-the-greenland-shark
(See the end of the work for more notes and other works inspired by this one.)
She swam through
waters,
ice deep and
pitch
no eye could perceive -
With an eye,
they said she
was as old as stories
we know
like relics.
She will pass
us all by,
years
unyielding,
while we are but moths -
Drawn to her
moon in the seas,
distant,
unknown,
ephemeral to her enduring.
For twtd - not what you were looking for when you sent this article, but this is what my ocean of a brain alighted upon.
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