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
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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 arent leaping laze
up to breathe curl
around each other below the surface touching fast
the water is 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 what is missing
is the sea what they see
is missing humanity & the power to exploit
they seem to play
up to it feed well no
one knows what they think lost
myths that 'gong-tormented sea'
saw raw beauty in the early morning
before the paying crowd in they play
tricks
with that colored ball floating separate from them all
they make
a person smile & thus accept the crime
imprisoned
in a story they will not want to tell as 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
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‘turning the body against itself’
out of synch &
the sluggard oils
almost too thick
the violence of the gentlest
dab squish blob
plop
the oiled colours slapped
hither & yon in
each square inch
against all
gone before
under coated slap
dash & somehow
thoroughly controlled
just
there or
there
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