Dwarfing the tiny scuba diver
a whaleshark glides across my laptop screen
immense and beautiful in her proportions
her colors and her graceful tail and fins
ambassador of oceanic kingdoms
accompanied by schools of underlings
her movements speak an undeciphered language
the echoing of silences and sounds
unheard by human ears throughout a thousand
ages - only now have we begun
to learn the secrets of this other planet
whose darkest mysteries mirror our own