the barest sound

we are gasping on the banks 
like dying fish        eating air 
     oily smoke          pushing 
underneath  the edges   of us 
        we buried that boy 
              inside of her 
a tiny box of     whale bone 
with a body         like a heart 
                in a little darkness 
throats rusted,     stomachs  
               full of human flesh
 the biggest whales pinned
 to the pinboard          of the 
                universe 




Adefisayo Adeyeye is currently studying English and Journalism at a college in Southern California. He has been published in Potluck Magazine, Ohio Edit, and The Writing Disorder.