the oil spilled
the fluid, precious thick and golden drops that light the lamp and fuel the fire; keep the spark alive, the narrative and drive
it comes from deep within the whalehead, white and red, together with the blood, the blood
Contents:
- the whalekill
- mocha
- this story is a story
- this man
- light the lamp
- the oil spilled
- the waves
- the deep
- the mud
- the whalehead
- the dedication
- loomings
- the whale i take you to be
- the whole thing was pretty gay
- the unendurable disaster
- the foredeck
- the rest is wandering
- the white whale
- stream of consciouness
- the blood
- sperm whale
- the coming of the swell
- sink it in the deep
- this letter
- up into the crow’s nest