Poem: Fay Zwicky - The Stone DolphinA good poem from Western Australian poet Fay Zwicky, not online anywhere so quoted here in full: from THREE SONGS OF LOVE & HATE The Stone Dolphin I have prayed for the end of his breath (and mine) to what end? Anger's words have been hugged and released. The language of tyranny had to be learnt if anything were to be said. What has been said has been said is still said after the panting mouth has been clamped by despair. But led by the devils do angels leave too? True grief is tongueless when the dumb define love's death. In a fiercely fathered and unmothered world words are wrung from the rack. Bury love's face Bury love's bones Bury love's tongue in a place where the cataract groans, where water is wedded to stones. My dolphin, you'll leap in the sun, Caught sweet, without hate, Without grief in perpetual summer. I sang you through gentler seas than you knew, nor will know never. Time full and perfect made heaven to laugh in its mercy, made…
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