Two sides

It is common to accuse the right or left lobe

for your logical or creative stumble,

when, in reality, these two dimensions of self,

the brain divided, may be called Past & Future,

or memory and planning.

People still get stuck.

The human skull does not seal the two sides

as one mind, until around age thirty.

Conveniently, it is also easy to divide

All people into two types;

Those that arrive early and those that are chronically late.

I will wait

until now comes

together.

♠

The frigate and dolphin sleep

one lobe at a time as they both traverse across

mirroring vast expanses of blue. 

‘Biologists’, we call them,

all conclude that They, the bird and the aquatic mammal

do not communicate in the same way,

Exactly.

Have you ever thought about someone you knew,

historically, and then

seen them somewhere

presently,

out of nowhere?

This is not called ‘coincidence',
It is pronounced eloquence. 

Photo of 'Bottlenose' By claudia14 [CC0 or CC0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Half-wit Habitat

They came to me too,
just like you, the birds and the water,
serenity instead of sheep.

Yet the insistent migration,
predictably precisely on
Time,
became
beyond mesmerising.

Understanding holding your breath,
sonar is like sleep talk, let me translate,
Chosen few.

Including the enduring frigate flyer
over vast continents of saltwater-
suspended
with nary a place to land and nest.

A rare sight does not make it fantasy,
pteridactyls still soar
for weeks and weakly
catch flying fish in the skyway,
Survivor skills.

Flocks and pods abound,
we in the middle-straddled here
gasping for air, too bloated to fly
and in one eye,
masterminds
one half at a time.
Meanwhile, we Sleep
grazing.




Painting by François Boucher, Arion on the dolphin, (1748) in [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

tursiops

smiles remind us
we are not the only ones
Here-Optimistic.




Image National Undersearch Research Program (NURP) Collection Location: Temperate-Tropical Atlantic & Pacific Ocean Photographer: M. Herko Credit: OAR/National Undersea Research Program (NURP).