Quoth the Whale 'Nevermore'

Happily we heard you breech
from the banks of central
cameras out to snap your tail
taxi burning petrol

Cheering you, when hoist'd high
rubbered by learned watermen
A great fish caught to be released
far beyond londonium

Sadly, we heard the trail lost
white heart beats no more . . .
once that fed the street lamps
now feeds our flaming cores

london whale

london

poetry