The Memory of Dolphins by JD DeHart

The Memory of Dolphins

Remember, I ask, the dolphins

or porpoises, their beautiful shadows

cavorting in the waves?

We felt so lucky to see them then.

When, you ask, when was that?

It was just a few years ago when we

went walking one morning, getting

our toes in the lukewarm water.

But the memory is gone, a photo that

has been destroyed, an event that

may as well have never happened.

Such is reality, I suppose.

(first appeared at Verse Virtual.)

JD DeHart is a writer and teacher.  He blogs at jddehartpoetry.blogspot.com.