In the Wake of a Second Cook

As a tanker is caught in a storm and capsizing a second cook on board receives a voice mail from his wife that he is a father to a baby girl The cook retreats to a small storage closet where there are approximately 60 minutes of air remaining Fiftyeight miles from shore in the confines of this closet he experiences impossibly authentic hallucinations of his baby girls birth growth and his own funeral and burial Our birth growth and death are inseparable from the natural elements Biodiversity affirms the enormity of our unconscious As he visualizes her mothers efforts up through age four the air runs out and he becomes a midwife to the memories he will never have a vision which only film can allow