OTI:two poems and notes:6/17/16

Open To Interpretation

Lateral Lines

A rare day, not often
The fog lifts, rifted apart
By sunshine on a
Blue blue ocean.
The Black Ship
Like an obsidian spear point
On horizon to horizon
Lapizlazuli silver glittered.
Pip is playing his concertina,
Ned his guitar,
Watteau his violin,
Madeline her cello.
Lateral lines below
Swirl and shoal.
The crew about Queequeg
Exchanging black cards...
Ishmael at the Red Wheel
With Dulcinea.
"A fine day, Captain!"
She smiles.
Ishmael considers,
"And as you say, 'Never trust
A blue sky day.'"
"Yes," says Dulcinea,
"Never ever."

Drift

So, so,
I drift in
And sip a coke
With bottled water chaser...
What the hell happened
To beer and pretzels!!!

DolphinWords

Notes: Watteau's violin and Madeline's cello references earlier post, OTI:5/30/16 Electric Dreams Minuet in G post...and it's the goldfish in the bowl in the clip in the movie Electric Dreams when the duet is playing that makes the lines, Lateral lines below Swirl and shoal...which takes over the whole poem, as the goldfish in the bowl steals the show in the clip!...at least for me, but then that may be because I know from my marine biology studies that the gold fish was 'listening' with its lateral line...lateral line in fish, sharks, amphibians, is a line down either side, one can see this next time one sees a fish!, and it has a name, neuromast, which I may borrow for the Black Ship's mast, or masts...sometimes the Black Ship has one mast, sometimes three...a drift...thinking that drifted me right into Drift!...ral...I have to wonder if the lateral line sense is a mammal sense too, though all the explanations say it's unique to aquatic creatures...nothing is lost from our earliest evolutionary days...things just morph...drifting about, the Black Ship is one by one acquiring a crew...Ishmael, Dulcinea, Ned Land, Queequeg, Pip, Watteau, Quixote, Madeline (a copyright ? doubt), the siblings, the parrots, the ravens and gulls, the ebony dolphins...the gathering of a crew is how all adventures begin!

:)

DavidDavid