Killing whale

By Marisca Pichette
Spring 2022 | Poetry

caught under the waves

of the glorious purple

night

thump thump

rippling all over and around

into

herself.

her

song of orcas

herds soft

scrapes savage—

skin scaled, eyes wide

black & white

playing in the darkened abyss

beat beat

thump

even darkness has

a heart.

Even darkness has

lips.

Marisca Pichette is a queer creator of monsters and magic. Her work has appeared and is forthcoming in Strange Horizons, Fireside Magazine, Pyre Magazine, Uncharted Magazine, PseudoPod, and PodCastle, among others. She lives in Western Massachusetts, surrounded by bones and whispering trees.

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