Doug thanks Isee poor bloody dolphins trapped in pens for cash -the
layout to me reflects their frenzy
On 21/08/2019 20:36, Douglas Barbour wrote:
> The Dolphins in the West Edmonton Mall:
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>
>
> 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/
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> Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuations 2 (UofAPress).
> Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
> Listen. If (UofAPress):
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> ON THE LAKE
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> reeds
>
> stalk
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> reeds
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> Nelson Ball
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