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The Silver Bank—What it Takes to Fly
December 12, 2017
On the Silver Bank,
90 km North of the Dominican Republic,
surrounded by 264 billion gallons of potent saltwater,
elongated fins fasten to a mottled black body.
A 2000 pound Humpback Whale is born.
Stipulates to the surface for air.
A frenzy fired up,
79,000 pounds,
flying.
But How?
Mom breaches;
the calf, concerned,
races to the surface.
6,340 kg/meter/second,
no turning back now,
Conquer consternation;
the calf leaps and lands, waving it’s wobbly tail out of the water: a Silver Bank beginning.
© Kristin R., Los Altos, CA
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In the Milaukee Public Museum there is an exhibit of the skeleton of a humpback whale and that inspired me to write this.