we are ocean and sky made small
when we open our mouth, the world comes outKiller phrases.
Animal: A Beast of a Literary Magazine
Killer Whale by Rudhthoronwen; for more information, visit
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The Killer Whales Sing
by Ryan Dzelzkalns
and as if that fantastic animal we accommodate had itself such finely tuned ears, such searching eyes, so gifted a tongue and mind, as to know much and be quite willing to tell it…
~Michel Foucault
we are ocean and sky made small
we speak, that is, rule
we come from below in families and institutions
when we open our mouth, the world comes out
make no mistake here
we are obeyed, and yet, no one was there to invent us
somehow we suspect the dark, suffer our body with hunger
we know only the skin holds in your blood
we surround you, are exercised from innumerable points of light
we think of you like you do: singular, yearning
we are wolfwhistle; we are thrall
where there is power, there is resistance, and yet, there…
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