She imagined herself to be a dolphin, swimming fast underwater and then emerging to the surface to take gulps of air, then submerge again. She heard her father calling but she didn’t want to return to land. She swam further out and found her pod. They scolded her with clicks and screeches, telling her she should not go so close to land, for fear of becoming entrapped.
Slipping between sea and sky, stitching the blues together in splashes of foam
She imagined herself to be a dolphin, swimming fast underwater and then emerging to the surface to take gulps of air, then submerge again. She heard her father calling but she didn’t want to return to land. She swam further out and found her pod. They scolded her with clicks and screeches, telling her she should not go so close to land, for fear of becoming entrapped.