Call me Ishmael

Ishmael~

not his name

witnessed the

vestiges of separation

disappear in a wall

of whiteness~

an epiphany in

a story unfolding

of a search for 

a self which was

separated by 

vengeance for a whale~~

(Melville's Moby Dick in the spotlight here.)
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