by Isabella Gardner (© 1979)
("That Was Then: New and Selected Poems" BOA Editions, Ltd.)
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Nimble as dolphins to dive leap and gimble, sleek, supple as ripples to slip round each other to wander and fondle on under and into the seeking and coupling and swarming of water compliant as sea-plants to bend with the tide unfolding and folding to frond and to flower a winding and twining to melt and to merge to rock upon billowing founder in surf and a fathom's down drowning before the sweet waking the floating ashore into sleep and to morning. |
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