Dolphin stranded on Falmouth beach this morning put down
The Falmouth Packet, 3 October 2012
Out of his thick glass eye
he sees the ocean,
the whole ocean not just the shore.
The sun has set on North Carolina
since he last saw from the window
a cloudless sky down below.
He might have been sleeping
if that’s the right verb
for retreating a while
into a meditation on freefall.
Night will fall, too,
across Lake Michigan soon
and he will not watch the sunrise
again in Chicago, Illinois.
(c) 2012 Slush Poet
So sad.
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