Summer is cooking
a winter in my soul.
Thawing a
frosted heart.

An equation
worth visualizing
with my dolphin
that I may never
understand.

A photo by John Fahy of Dalkey Photos showing a bottlenose dolphin playing with a paddle boarder at Killiney Bay in front of Dalkey Island : Wikimedia

But that's ok.
As they say.
When you're
underwater.

Is it ok to forget
or remember?
Be it insouciant youth,
blocking the pain,
or natural decay;
memory often throbs
like a phantom limb.

Welcome to the
emotional residue.

-- Don Cohoon

Reference: https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2025/07/girl-1983-linn-ullmann-novel-review/683521/

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