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  • When World is Whale
  • Gillian Cummings (bio)

Something surfaces. Not an idea. Notan idea of an idea or even its underside,though just afterward, beneath the surface,a white-green shadow, or the opposite of shadow,fades into darker depths below. You know nothing,not where it came from, not why it appearsor shows a largeness built from a myriadof smallnesses so little they pretend not to be,before they are caught, caught by the one, this one,this presence of something, someone, movingbelow the motion of all you can’t see, all you haveforgotten in the sleep of your sleep, cradle-rockedabove what you would call love: of water for air, ofthe space inside for the outside, of black for the blue        that it breathes. [End Page 207]

Gillian Cummings

GILLIAN CUMMINGS is the author of My Dim Aviary, which was chosen as the winner of the 2015 Hudson Prize and will be published this fall by Black Lawrence Press. Recent poems appear or are forthcoming in the Adroit Journal, Barrow Street, Cider Press Review, the Journal, and New Orleans Review. She is also a visual artist.

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