Spinner Dolphin

Thursday May 23, 2013

Spinner dolphin 2010 Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill female, 63.5 kg

Swimming

All Around Me

My Pod

Calves Skimming

Ahead

Many

Jumping

Leaping

Twisting

For Joy

Our

Trademark

Specialty

What we are

Known for

Shimmering

Bodies

Gray White

Shine

Splashes

Clicks

Happiness

Calves

Everywhere

Learning

A New Day

Hope

But I see

A Ship

Big

Looming

Far Off

We Stay

Away

For

Fear

Boats

Death

Hit

Death

So we

Travel

A Safe

Distance

From the

Boat

Still in

Sight

Everything

Is Normal

But the

Boat starts

Making Weird

Noise

Something

Wrong

Very

Wrong

And It

Shouts

BOOM

Orange

Light the

Sky

What

Happened

We

Flee

Danger

Danger

Calves

Must

Catch

Up

With Us

Swim

Swim

Don’t

Look Back

But I do

Rolling

Sticky

Foul

Liquid

Tar

Rushing

Towards Us

Closer

Closer

The Old Ones

Slowing Down

Caught

Unable to

Move

Escape

Gone

Swallowed by

The Mass

of Tar
of Oil

I Swim

The Calves

Strong

Supported

Pushed

Tar still

Coming

Dolphin

Next to Me

Cough

Choke

Why

Cough

Choke

Stop

Swimming

Gone

Swallowed

Gone

Still

Coughing and

Choking

Scared

Scared

Swim

Swim

Calves

Whimpering

I am

Not a Mother

Yet my

Heart

Breaks

So Young

Tragedy

Already

One by one

Pod gets

Smaller

Smaller

Weaker

Weaker

Pushing my

Flippers

Slower

Tar Seeping

Through

Pod

Can’t

Move

Flippers

Stuck

Don’t open

Mouth

Help

No Cries

Tar will

Go In

my Mouth

I let

Go

Let the

Tar Consume

Me

Gone