Its a peripheral memory

" a verse that has something interesting in it is all right, even if its meaning isn't very clear"
-Basho

From far away like pinpoints of molten silver
They flew
scales low across the water, so fast and gone
That we on the catamaran thought they
Were tricks of light against the blue green sea.

Then, one left the water on the side of the boat
out electric blue, silver wings straight out,
and we saw the back of the dolphin clear the water
and knew why the fish was flying.

If I were one of them, I would like to be
One with wings large enough to glide forever,
Out in the open ocean, all alone.
Dipping only long enough in the water to breathe.