lew watts
Out of Ushuaia
crossing the Drake all passages empty
second penguin day . . .
a few singles
pairing up
crushed
in the skua’s hooked bill
a gentoo egg
at the end
of a blood-stained track
leopard seal
freezing mist
the flatulent breath
of a minke whale
Wilson’s storm petrels
butterflies
in my stomach
there . . . and there . . . take me wandering albatross
Modern Haiku, vol. 51.2, 2020