The Dolphins in the West Edmonton Mall:
walking early evening
small australian seaside town
with no purpose
watching the sea
splash rocks below see
a porpoise leap
perfect curve
carved eons ago
*
in the pool at West Edmonton
malled dolphins play short
stopped short
whenever they start
a whitewater skid across a surface so enclosed
their leaps might curve the same perhaps as always yet
they cannot leap laze
up to breathe curl
around each other below the surface touching fast
the water kept clean (is salted ?
& they kept together do in their way
play
they are consumed demonstrating
their exploits at 1:10 4:00 7:30
midway
between profit & less
than enough room in a short pool in
the middle of all these stores
Byzantine politics brought them here
for byzantine profits missing
the sea what they see
missing humanity lost
myths that 'gong-tormented sea'
saw raw beauty in the early morning
before the paying crowd in they play
tricks
colored ball floating apart from them all
they make
a person smile & thus complicit
imprisoned
in a story never part of
their ongoing song sung
thru the ages of humanity
that moment
ary glimpse in waves of living curve
(the planet
moving was
another world
elsewhere
[Hoping it keeps the lineation & indents.]
Douglas Barbour
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https://eclecticruckus.wordpress.com/
Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuations 2 (UofAPress).
Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
Listen. If (UofAPress):
ON THE LAKE
reeds
stalk
reeds
Nelson Ball
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