Keeps a coat on the back of her door that she never wears.
The tale she is after
Someone who waits for the final sentence.
To hear the seal-woman's side.
Where she stops telling
Won't tell the tale to someone who is laughing.
No photographs of the logbooks.
How she tells it
Slow, deliberate, with long pauses written as line breaks. Dry understatement. Speaks of the sea in the third person. The legend's last line is said, and nothing else.
Where you sit
You are the visitor who didn't look at the door.
She has opened the logbook at a page she doesn't show people.
