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Dolphin<\/strong><\/p>\n For Lucy<\/em><\/p>\n They put me out to sea, following the students Some kids dangle their fingers overboard, Some have\u00a0tears\u00a0encrusted around their eyes I sense their excitement as a dolphin I remember, all those years ago, when our own boat sank, today\u2019s students are afraid of drowning <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Jack\u00a0Little\u00a0<\/strong>(b. 1987) is a British-Mexican poet, editor and translator based in Mexico City. He is the author of Elsewhere<\/em> <\/i>(Eyewear, 2015) and is the founding editor of The Ofi Press. He was the poet in\u00a0residence\u00a0at The Heinrich B\u00f6ll Cottage on Achill Island in the west of Ireland in July 2016.\u00a0@JLittleMexico<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dolphin For Lucy They put me out to sea, following the students on their dinghies. Other adults bark orders about unfamiliar ropes and sails. Some kids dangle their fingers overboard, the bravest allowing their boats to take them towards a pointed rock on the half-horizon. Some have\u00a0tears\u00a0encrusted around their eyes borne from last night\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15553"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15744,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15553\/revisions\/15744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\non their dinghies. Other adults bark orders
\nabout unfamiliar ropes and sails.<\/p>\n
\nthe bravest allowing their boats to take them
\ntowards a pointed rock on the half-horizon.<\/p>\n
\nborne from last night\u2019s fear of this moment.<\/p>\n
\nnoses sadly beside our boat,
\nhis tail not leaving the water\u2019s protection.<\/p>\n
\nof the dull throb of shame when your dad sailed out to save us,
\nthe neighbours laughing as they watched through their binoculars
\nfrom their bungalows on the loch\u2019s edge-<\/p>\n
\nand one dolphin remains lost in his dance.<\/p>\n