White Whales

 
White whales
ride the crests
of our imagination,
 
harpooned and bleeding
into the open seas,
diving to the deep
 
and surfacing albino
strange, always dying
and forever alive,
 
courting extinction
and cast in immortality,
rising fleet and furious,
 
stark red eyes glittering
in the translucent depths
of legendary incarnation.
 
(First appeared in Chizine)