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Whale at the Delta Entrance
A stormy night on the Gibraltar
strait
confounds a creature large enough to be
a church and drives it in towards the coast.
No bright lighthouse can turn this ship of bone
back from the cemetery by the sea
to musical wanderings of ocean depths.
Only a lonely strip of yellow
sand
lies underneath the pillars of
Hercules,
- which bear the temple roof of windy sky -
and separates Mediterranean blue
from deep Atlantic green, the way a beached
soul of gigantic life, separates from earth.
Anthony Walstorm is a Californian poet, living in Madrid,
Spain. He has been published in poetry reviews around the world in English and Spanish.
He has written a series of poems on poetry road tours, such as the present one called The San Lucar Delta Poems,
set at the Guadalquivir River delta entrance (near Seville), the sea port from which Christopher Columbus
set sail to discover America.
Email: Anthony Walstorm
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