Masthead,

Death-bed;

Spouter-Inn,

Forgiven-sin

Brine,

Divine;

Deck,

Wreck…

Water magic,

Ocean tragic;

Go whale,

No bail

Moby Dick,

Be Glick;

Stay obsessed,

Fail quest!

Fight gods,

Zero odds;

Boil blubber,

Money grubber

Fate, chance, free will,

Mat, monkey-rope, quill;

Pipe, coffin, harpoon,

Leg, line, doubloon…

Gabriel and Elijah alike,

Captain Ahab the Reich;

Revenge spouting stormy waves,

Leviathan stirring mad slaves

Nature’s power roaming in the sea,

Crew’s soul lingering in plea;

Loyal heart or warrior might?

Fight, rebel, flight, or blight!

Queequeg, tattooed and bold,

Harpooner with tales untold;

Pacific islands, his distant home,

Killer skills, the water biome

Ishmael, a sailing wanderer inshore,

Soul adrift in ocean’s lore;

Philosophies woven in each line,

Anatomies squeezed to mere brine...