San Diego, Giant Squid Poem

By Red Talgarth

San Diego, giant squid
Tore beaks at the BCDs of divers
Mistaking them for seals
There were survivors,

I dived near there once
Silently bouyant in the giant kelp
Watching sea otters play
Hearing whales cry help,

While on a Big Sur beach
A walrus rotted in the golden sand
Looking for all the world
Like a great brown hand