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| A dead dolphin was found washed ashore in Westerly RI, Oct. 27, 2019. Photo: Zac Perrin, Channel 10 Providence. |
Kill things
Dolphins
Seals
Birds
Endangered species
Separated from parents children
Allies
Then we send troops into the country
we betrayed to defend the oil fields
Author’s note: Written after finding a full grown dolphin washed ashore on an offshore island
Alan Catlin has published dozens of chapbooks and full-length books, most recently the chapbook Three Farmers on the Way to a Dance (Presa Press), a series of ekphrastic poems responding to the work of German photographer August Sander who did portraits of Germans before, during, and after both World Wars.