all day long the supermarket shoal swelled

subsided

nosed their snouts into lucrative gaps

breathing through blow holes

glistening in their silky coats.

Oblivious of those who dominate them

they glide on their tides

anticipate, perpetrate

managing their own limits, spaces.

 

Of many colours

they seem to know and share community

and their place as,

seeing in the dark

fleeing, they part

peeling off from the bays of the supermarket.

 

At night they test other waters

buried in sleep and the subconscious.