Spermaceti

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Spermaceti Amanda Hawkins (bio) Keywords Amanda, Hawkins, spermaceti, whale, scrimshaw, land, whaler, oil At first the men thought it a store of foggy white cum.I can forgive this mistake—desire can interrupt logic. The scrimshaw teeth show portraits of women and sirens,jawbones of panoramic landscapes— land and lovers. I want compassion,but I also believe they were as awful as I think—their markall over the oceans and coasts, taking whatever little beauty remained of those beasts.Easy to let myself hate the men in all they desired and all they do, say, take.Did anyone speak out against it? This is the moment I become truly afraidI am hardly doing any different. Often quiet when I need to speak. All logic lost at a woman's touch.I will use every resource I can find to get what I want. I am insatiably curious.What would I choose if I were a man in a time of whaling? What bodies I would reach for and how?What bone would I pick, and would I take a knife to it? [End Page 351] Amanda Hawkins amanda hawkins is a Tin House and Bread Loaf Scholar, a three-time Pushcart nominee, and a recipient of the Editor's Prize for Poetry at The Florida Review. Her work can be found in Boston Review, The Cincinnati Review, Mid-American Review, Orion, Terrain, and Tin House. She holds an MA in theological studies from Regent College in Vancouver, Canada, and is currently an MFA candidate at UC Davis. Copyright © 2021 The Massachusetts Review, Inc.

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