The
Brothers Fin – fraternal twins – were not so-named
because
they came from Finland – but rather for the reason
they
could not inhabit any portion of the planet too far inland.
Where
we wear slippers they have flippers, and their hands are
webbed,
and on their heads and backs grow fins. Their human
parents
lived beside a bay into the frigid depths of which
they
dumped their progeny at birth: hoping wanly that the bay
might
be where they might thrive on Earth, or give the baby
beasts
at least a chance (their mom and dad had not
themselves
the courage to advance) to surface from their dive.
And so
they did, still do – alive. Wave back nicely when they
wave to
you, as wave to you they will. They know waves’
spill
and line and swell, how they reflect both moon and star.
See how fine they are!
.
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