Leviathan is beached between the Keystone and Science Buildings of University of Washington Tacoma, resting upon the railroad tracks. We approach from its head, circle its immense carcass, as we walk the tracks. We pause near its eye, its flipper, its tail, its opposite eye. We climb the stairs to the pedestrian bridge between the buildings to view its enormity, its grandiosity, from above.
Day two brings decay of the carcass. Wind and rain have begun to remove some of its scales. We peek inside the whale. We see bones and meat.
We dream of nearby Thea Foss waterway. We dream of wind and rain, which visits us every fifteen to twenty minutes. We dream of sky and filtered sunshine.
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