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Doug, it looks odd to see you here referring to porpoises in Australia. Googling, I note that we do have one species of porpoise but there are 14 species of dolphin here (32 worldwide) and dolphins are far more prevalent. They have prominent elongated beaks and a hooked or curved dorsal fin as opposed to the porpoise’s triangular fin. Porpoises are generally more portly, dolphins leaner. I’ve seen many energetic dolphins, mostly racing and cavorting alongside boats or ferries and once, at Noosa Heads, saw a couple out beyond the waves I was bodysurfing. I reckon it is more likely you saw a dolphin too. Anyway, your poem has retained its indentations and spaces and sense. Confined pleasure a different beast from open wild writhing. Bill On Thu, 22 Aug 2019 at 5:37 am, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > 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 > [log in to unmask] > 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 > > ######################################################################## > > To unsubscribe from the POETRYETC list, click the following link: > https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=POETRYETC&A=1 > ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the POETRYETC list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=POETRYETC&A=1