<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><a href="https://www.cascadiamagazine.org/poetry/elegy-for-tahlequahs-calf/" class="">https://www.cascadiamagazine.org/poetry/elegy-for-tahlequahs-calf/</a><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="entry-author" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 15.75px; vertical-align: baseline; float: left; clear: both; display: inline-block; color: rgb(23, 23, 23); font-family: 'Open Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><div class="entry-author-byline" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0.8rem 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 1.5rem; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic; line-height: 40px; display: inline-block;">by <a class="vcard fn" href="https://www.cascadiamagazine.org/author/paul-nelson/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 16.875px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(48, 112, 209); font-weight: bold; font-style: normal;">Paul Nelson</a></div></div><time class="entry-date published" datetime="2018-07-30T15:32:24+00:00" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.1rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 1.2rem; vertical-align: baseline; display: block; float: left; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: 0.1rem; text-transform: uppercase; line-height: 40px; color: rgb(23, 23, 23); font-family: 'Open Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">JULY 30, 2018</time><time class="entry-date published" datetime="2018-07-30T15:32:24+00:00" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.1rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 1.2rem; vertical-align: baseline; display: block; float: left; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: 0.1rem; text-transform: uppercase; line-height: 40px; color: rgb(23, 23, 23); font-family: 'Open Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><br class=""></time></div><div class=""><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 2.2rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 15.75px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word; color: rgb(23, 23, 23); font-family: 'Open Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 15.75px;" class=""><br class=""></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 2.2rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 15.75px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word; color: rgb(23, 23, 23); font-family: 'Open Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 15.75px;" class=""><br class=""></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 2.2rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 15.75px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word; color: rgb(23, 23, 23); font-family: 'Open Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 15.75px;" class="">Tahlequah is daughter of Princess Angeline</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 2.2rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 15.75px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word; color: rgb(23, 23, 23); font-family: 'Open Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" class="">brother of Moby, sister to Kiki, mother</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 2.2rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 15.75px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word; color: rgb(23, 23, 23); font-family: 'Open Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" class="">to Notch. Her second offspring was not</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 2.2rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 15.75px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word; color: rgb(23, 23, 23); font-family: 'Open Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" class="">born but born still and still un-named &</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 2.2rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 15.75px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word; color: rgb(23, 23, 23); font-family: 'Open Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" class="">un-numbered. For five days Tahlequah</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 2.2rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 15.75px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word; color: rgb(23, 23, 23); font-family: 'Open Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 15.75px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 2.2rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 15.75px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word; color: rgb(23, 23, 23); font-family: 'Open Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" class="">pushed her still-born calf around the</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 2.2rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 15.75px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word; color: rgb(23, 23, 23); font-family: 'Open Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" class="">Salish Sea, perhaps a hope that she’d</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 2.2rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 15.75px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word; color: rgb(23, 23, 23); font-family: 'Open Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" class="">not be a parent to bury a child, perhaps</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 2.2rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 15.75px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word; color: rgb(23, 23, 23); font-family: 'Open Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" class="">a grief vigil, the un-named/un-numbered</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 2.2rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 15.75px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word; color: rgb(23, 23, 23); font-family: 'Open Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" class="">calf riding dead on her rostrum five days.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 2.2rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 15.75px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word; color: rgb(23, 23, 23); font-family: 'Open Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 15.75px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 2.2rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 15.75px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word; color: rgb(23, 23, 23); font-family: 'Open Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" class="">Tahlequah, Cherokee for “plains” or a kind</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 2.2rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 15.75px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word; color: rgb(23, 23, 23); font-family: 'Open Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" class="">of red rice, or “just two” or “two is enough.”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 2.2rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 15.75px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word; color: rgb(23, 23, 23); font-family: 'Open Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" class="">Or a ferry terminal on Vashon. Five days</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 2.2rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 15.75px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word; color: rgb(23, 23, 23); font-family: 'Open Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" class="">says the witness from the whale museum</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 2.2rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 15.75px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word; color: rgb(23, 23, 23); font-family: 'Open Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" class="">sitting shiva and watching her “deep breaths.”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 2.2rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 15.75px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word; color: rgb(23, 23, 23); font-family: 'Open Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 15.75px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 2.2rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 15.75px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word; color: rgb(23, 23, 23); font-family: 'Open Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" class="">She carried the dead calf 20 miles one day</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 2.2rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 15.75px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word; color: rgb(23, 23, 23); font-family: 'Open Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" class="">in her teeth from time to time through the</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 2.2rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 15.75px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word; color: rgb(23, 23, 23); font-family: 'Open Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" class="">full Ripe Thimbleberry Moon, through stage</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 2.2rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 15.75px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word; color: rgb(23, 23, 23); font-family: 'Open Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" class="">one grief, denial. “We are going to be here</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 2.2rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 15.75px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word; color: rgb(23, 23, 23); font-family: 'Open Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" class="">as long as necessary for her.” Here</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 2.2rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 15.75px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word; color: rgb(23, 23, 23); font-family: 'Open Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 15.75px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 2.2rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 15.75px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word; color: rgb(23, 23, 23); font-family: 'Open Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" class="">is what your ferry-line idling of your</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 2.2rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 15.75px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word; color: rgb(23, 23, 23); font-family: 'Open Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" class="">giant truck brings, 108.7 degree low</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 2.2rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 15.75px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word; color: rgb(23, 23, 23); font-family: 'Open Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" class="">temperatures in Quriyat, Oman, eleven</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 2.2rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 15.75px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word; color: rgb(23, 23, 23); font-family: 'Open Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" class="">fires in the Arctic Circle, momma whales</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 2.2rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 15.75px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word; color: rgb(23, 23, 23); font-family: 'Open Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" class="">pushing around their still-born calves five days.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 2.2rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 15.75px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word; color: rgb(23, 23, 23); font-family: 'Open Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 15.75px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 2.2rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 15.75px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word; color: rgb(23, 23, 23); font-family: 'Open Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" class="">But you stayed cool in your air-conditioned</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 2.2rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 15.75px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word; color: rgb(23, 23, 23); font-family: 'Open Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" class="">life, you had bigger fish to fry than whales</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 2.2rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 15.75px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word; color: rgb(23, 23, 23); font-family: 'Open Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" class="">who have no lobby, you idled that engine</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 2.2rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 15.75px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word; color: rgb(23, 23, 23); font-family: 'Open Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" class="">until the last glacier died, the last salmon</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 2.2rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 15.75px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word; color: rgb(23, 23, 23); font-family: 'Open Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" class="">leapt & last forest burned.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 2.2rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 15.75px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word; color: rgb(23, 23, 23); font-family: 'Open Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 15.75px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 2.2rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 15.75px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word; color: rgb(23, 23, 23); font-family: 'Open Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" class="">These are the stories the children of our</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 2.2rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 15.75px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word; color: rgb(23, 23, 23); font-family: 'Open Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" class="">children will tell if there are storytellers</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 2.2rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 15.75px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word; color: rgb(23, 23, 23); font-family: 'Open Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" class="">in their time. How we slept at the switch</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 2.2rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 15.75px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word; color: rgb(23, 23, 23); font-family: 'Open Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" class="">ignored the clear signs of doom, how we</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 2.2rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 15.75px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word; color: rgb(23, 23, 23); font-family: 'Open Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" class="">were scholars of war & good tweeters</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 2.2rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 15.75px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word; color: rgb(23, 23, 23); font-family: 'Open Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 15.75px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 2.2rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 15.75px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word; color: rgb(23, 23, 23); font-family: 'Open Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" class="">had nice dinner photographs & saved ourselves</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 2.2rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 15.75px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word; color: rgb(23, 23, 23); font-family: 'Open Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" class="">from Muslims & immigrants & every vague</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 2.2rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 15.75px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word; color: rgb(23, 23, 23); font-family: 'Open Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" class="">threat the cruel majority could conjure</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 2.2rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 15.75px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word; color: rgb(23, 23, 23); font-family: 'Open Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" class="">while the world burned & one whale mom</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 2.2rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 15.75px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word; color: rgb(23, 23, 23); font-family: 'Open Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" class="">did all our crying for us.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 2.2rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 15.75px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word; color: rgb(23, 23, 23); font-family: 'Open Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 15.75px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 2.2rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 15.75px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word; color: rgb(23, 23, 23); font-family: 'Open Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" class="">Paul E Nelson</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 2.2rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 15.75px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word; color: rgb(23, 23, 23); font-family: 'Open Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" class="">9:24am – 7.28.2018</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 2.2rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 15.75px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word; color: rgb(23, 23, 23); font-family: 'Open Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" class="">“We are going to be here as long as necessary for her.” –Quote from <a href="https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/we-wont-give-up-as-long-as-she-doesnt-orca-mother-carries-dead-calf-for-fourth-day/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 15.75px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(48, 112, 209); font-weight: bold;" class="">Taylor Shedd</a>, Program Coordinator for <a href="https://whalemuseum.org/collections/meet-the-whales" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 15.75px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(48, 112, 209); font-weight: bold;" class="">Soundwatch</a> in the Seattle Times, July 27, 2018.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 2.2rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 15.75px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word; color: rgb(23, 23, 23); font-family: 'Open Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" class="">Etymology of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tahlequah,_Oklahoma#Etymology" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 15.75px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(48, 112, 209); font-weight: bold;" class="">Tahlequah</a>.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 2.2rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 15.75px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word; color: rgb(23, 23, 23); font-family: 'Open Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" class="">Quiriyat in Oman <a href="https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/hottest-low-temperature-quriyat-oman-wxc/index.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 15.75px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(48, 112, 209); font-weight: bold;" class="">breaks world low temperature record</a>.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 2.2rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 15.75px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word; color: rgb(23, 23, 23); font-family: 'Open Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><a href="https://www.livescience.com/63107-arctic-sweden-wildfires.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 15.75px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(48, 112, 209); font-weight: bold;" class="">Arctic Circle burns</a> as record heat broils Europe.</p></div></body></html>