Detonations

Detonations

Whale at a submarine--
Dear deep mariner, what do you hear?
Is it people milling about, snoring bunkmates or
busy machinery, the beeping meter's pop?
If you can, to that porthole, put an eye, look around.
Are you interested? Does it make sense?
How I wish I could read your thoughts, become some medium
in order to understand all this complexity going on.
These beings aren't puppets, are they?
And their consoles have a purpose--
Exploration, correct?
So what's shooting forth?
Whoosh,such a fathomable
propellant, such a beautiful
bombshell whizzing through foam, schools of fish, strips
of plankton to hit some, some--
What
is it
just child's play
with the weight of earth
oceanic
suddenly on backs?
How
to stomach, digest, breathe
belly upward?
Meanwhile, in some desert, for research, another device goes
off.