MY RESCUE


Watching cranes, swallows
pipers,dolphins, grey whales

from Baja under showers
a hospital ship rescuing me

from the shark floating waters
entangled by rope on buoys

in my London Fog preaching
from my red kayak's sea life

and a crab fisherman
resembling Pee Wee Herman

rubs me the wrong way
if you see through a port hole

from an undertow shark movie
leaping from leagues of Jules Verne

a prophet raised from the dead
like Jonah in my own Nineveh

thrilled to be back on land
with a 1970 "Save the Whale" button.