Cetacean

Out of Fisherman’s Wharf, San Francisco, Sunday early,

our vessel, bow to stern, some sixty-three feet.

to observe Blue Whales - and we did, off the Fallarones

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They were swimming slowly and rose at a shallow angle

(they were grey as slate with white mottling, dorsals tiny and stubby

with broad flat heads of at least one quarter their overall body lengths)

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They blew as soon as their heads began to break the surface

The blows were as straight and slim as upright columns

rising nearly to thirty feet in vertical props

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Hen their heads

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