Sally Bliumis-Dunn: Beaked Whales Should Not Be Spotted Near a Coast
Low tide and all we hear
is the whale’s terrible breathing,
its body drying out
Video: Why do whales sing?
This short animated film, produced by Stephanie Sardelis of the Ripley’s Aquarium of Canada, decodes the evocative melodies composed by the world’s largest mammals.
Sally Bliumis-Dunn: Sea Turtles Mating
To be amazed at her luck
or pity her trials
Sally Bliumis-Dunn: Quahogue
I knocked
and you showed me the letter
from your father who left when you were five.
George Monbiot: Life Enhancing
Allowing the seas to recover from the outrageous assaults of commercial fishing can help heal our own wounded lives.
Sally Bliumis-Dunn: Work
The father sanded the gunwales,the boy coiled the lines.
And I admired them there, each to his task
in the quiet of the long familiar.
Sally Bliumis-Dunn : Echolocation
I saw one once—heaved onto the sand with kelp
stuck to its blue-gray skin.
Heavy and immobile,
it lay like a great sadness.
Sally Bliumis-Dunn: Right Whales
they said it took weeks
for the whale to die deep below the surface
