Sealion

SEALION

Sliding sleekly,
smoothly through
zoo's deep pool;
each move mimics
liquid flow,
as the wave
that surrounds.
Suddenly
she arises;
breaks the smooth,
murky-green
surface with
small, sharp snorts.
Looking up,
liquid soul
are her eyes
in a smooth,
whiskered face

For a moment
we are facing,
seeing you
am I,
lioness of
land-encircling,
boundless sea;
lioness of
cold and deep,
limitless
plains of ocean;
for a moment
we are meeting___
then, then all as
instantly
you dip downwards;
suddenly,
down, down, down,
into deeps'
invisibility.