The Loneliness of Whales
Silence is God's first language; everything else is a poor translation.
Thomas Keating
Using low frequency sounds, whales can communicate across 10,000 miles, but the din of shipping traffic and mining exploration interrupts their long-distance conversations...
During COVID, researchers in Norway detected not only more whale communications but also sounds they had never heard before.
Pete McBride
What is
the sound of joy
to a whale?
When that
which was lost
draws near -- ?
And a loneliness
long-carried lifts –
filling out the empty
spaces with song --
Sending the
northern heavens
into shivery reverb –
Momentary relief
a hallelujah chorus.
Published by
Martha T. Terrell
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