Great Whale

Through the opal gloam
I will eat you up
until your skin
snugs inside mine
our scales should slide
nicely
no bother.

Really, this will not do -
shedding friends
spitting them out
like so much plankton
grasping
with my mouth
my eyes

I want
my teeth back
shoals to bleed
my glossy flank
fusiform toes
some sense
of streamlining.