DOLPHINSEE: A pelagic paean

    An shards ah time we ere a swimmin'
    in kurrants deeper thun thay seem

    If ya sea pysst the bracken gloss, umpteen
    kuns, toxic resins & micro-trash
    strange questions surface
    such az
    How kun we move through the waters
    ah kreation mure kleanly
    'n swim with lightness 'n speede?

    Grate dolphins
    alrody knuw tha answers:
    observe thim klosely
    ta learn ah light
    ness, art & speede

    Edukrate those
    lacking fins err
    smooth dynamicks -
    eventually all will
    muuv gracefully


Soo:     (yawning) Dis dolphin looks like a bird.

Jules:   (scratching his head) . . . so do some people!

Andrei:  (ignoring the conversation) Too often dolphins are seen as rival predators or alternative protein sources.

Philyra: I know. Isn't this what happens when we see things merely as commodities?

Ellesha: It goes deeper – don't we sometimes see each other that way?


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from _Let the waters be my witness: Messages about our watery world_ by T Newfields
SUMMARY: A mutant poem about dolphin wisdom and lame conversation about Delphinidae.
KEYWORDS: dolphin paean, marine illumination, mutant poetry, non-human awareness

Author: T Newfields [Nitta Hirou / Huáng Yuèwǔ] (b. 1955)
Begun: 2000 in Nagoya, Japan / Finished: 2023 in Yokohama, Japan
Creative Commons License: Attribution. {{CC-BY-4.0}} Granted

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