A Dolphins Dream by Eyles Carlos

Author:Eyles, Carlos [Eyles, Carlos]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Undefined
Publisher: Carlos Eyles
Published: 2011-02-08T23:00:00+00:00

18

Compton laid beneath the netting expecting the dullness of sleep to give way to a headache. A terrible hollowness consumed him instead, as though all the blood from his body had been drained away and replaced with brake fluid. He could not hold a simple thought. He made coffee and drank two cups but nothing changed. He wandered the beach, absently looking for shells but soon propped himself up against the fallen tree in self-imposed catatonia.

A blue heron appeared in the shallows, standing stock still over a tide pool. He watched it for a time, became distracted and when he looked again it had vanished as if it had never been there at all. The kingfisher perched on a far branch that extended out over the water. Suddenly it plummeted headlong into the shallows and reemerged with a piece of light flickering in its beak. Tips of greenery sprouted from every twig on the fallen tree and he wondered if they had done so in the precise moment before he caught sight of them. He went to the kitchen and wrote:

The kava has drilled a hole leaving me drained and empty, like a washed up shell on the beach.

The sea sounds roll into the hollow of my unlived past,

and reverberate in distant echoes.

The wild, abstract patterns of the tree branches against

the gray sky suspends over me like demons of the future.

The rock and crab, the heron and the kingfisher inhabit the present and I do not feel separate from them.

Compton put down the pen and returned to the warmth of the sand, where he immediately fell asleep. He dreamed of flight beneath the ocean, soaring free as a bird, gliding wherever he pleased in the liquid atmosphere. He swam with a silver creature that was without scales and as slick as mercury. It had the face of Sinaca and together they made lightning leaps about this inner sea.

He awoke in the late afternoon and felt surprisingly refreshed, almost cleansed. Moses had not come and he went to bed early without supper and did not dream again.

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