On The Rare Capture Of A Megamouth Shark Poem by Glen Kappy

from 'Wonderful and Wise'

The picture shows
a gathering of people.
Its fourteen feet and bulbous head
the focus of their circle.

With them standing there
I wonder at all we do not know
of the deep below—its usual realm—
a perpetual blue-black midnight
the only stars its fellow creatures
that pulse with chemical light—
and of the deep above it mirrors—
celestial bodies and expanding limits
always further than our sight
and called, mistakenly, a void.

With them standing there
my hope is nurtured by life
that bubbles and explodes and reproduces
unfathomable and infinite—
ever beyond our clumsy reach
our ability to catalog or count
ever beyond our uses.