blue (for Jack Bendes)

there you were on the point
next to me
like most mornings we would look out into the
deep blue ocean
but this one time
the first of yours
we saw the blue whale
headed north
it was winter
you were here
now you are gone
and its been such a long time
a year
without you in the village
but then your little wave
made big waves
and now its all gone
the big whale has jumped
and the village is left
with little that remains
but a mere memory of our sweet times together
on the point
it was the whale with you
and it was
the whale with me