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Show Flipped off from the coral reefs, And the sea abounded in great whales And tiny seahorses, hard-backed turtles, Oysters and the red lobster, the swordfish, The walrus, the seal, and the web-footed platypus Nippers and suckers, gulpers and s l a s h e r s - After the ponderous age of the dinosaur. Each knew his mate and obeyed. Caress and acceptance, sperm and ova. Life out of life unto death. The Stellar Seal suckled her pup and printed his breath In her nostrils. Salmon climbed the cold stair Of the rapids to spawn-and to die. The gull and the goose nestled their eggs. Time and season, rookery and spawning ground. The sea and its shores were noisy with young, After the manner and yieldingness of earth, Compelled by the Spirit, which moved Over the waters of commandment, Patterning the stern order of Elohim, In the perfect love of Jehovah. And the morning and the evening of an eon Were the fifth day. |
