Tuesday 25 June 2019

Off Dodman Point

A curl of breaking wavelet outlines a fin. The curve of travelling wakes become rolling, arched backs.

The dolphin direction changes with the sea state and the wind; it changes with the angle of the light and cloud pattern. It ranges narrow, ten degrees, up to a full half compass rose. The dolphin direction is the place you look and see the most imagined dolphins; the direction of dreams and of deceits.

To actually see dolphins, real dolphins, you must first work out where they are not, where even if they were you would not believe them, and then look the other way, to where the dolphins are not just mirrors of delusions.