Rae Mansfield: Manatees
Evan Johnson: Swimming inside and outside
Linda Lau: Swish swish swish
Rae Mansfield: Not eating fish
Linda Lau: Floating
Evan Johnson: Floating through a pristine dreamworld
Rae Mansfield: Burn it to the ground, child
Linda Lau: The ground is
Evan Johnson: Weakening
Rae Mansfield: Sliding
Linda Lau: Right and Left. Right and Left
Evan Johnson: I wonder what will happen
Linda Lau: This moment
Rae Mansfield: Gone
Evan Johnson: Perhaps we found something magical
Linda Lau: In my mind
Rae Mansfield: Sea cows
Evan Johnson: Grazing and dreaming
Linda Lau: Remembering the manatee
Rae Mansfield: Sadly magically happily placidly
Evan Johnson: It swims
Linda Lau: Circling around and around
Rae Mansfield: I couldn’t imagine a happier place
Evan Johnson: There’s a little cove, quiet little home
Linda Lau: Like the home of a snail
Rae Mansfield: Hear the ocean
Evan Johnson: Maybe today, perhaps tomorrow
Linda Lau: The ocean waits as it always does
Photo Credit: U.S. Geological Survey, “Here’s Looking at You, Kid–Meet a Florida Manatee,” 2007