It is Said

the dolphin who bore Arion home
was loath to part from him,
so went to court with him.
Luxury and honeyed attentions
were not good for him, of course:
he died soon after.
Arion devised a fitting funeral—
a boat of flowers adrift
inside a burnished sun,
both slowly sinking…
Petals on gold-flecked waves.
A vast green silence.
The ocean's chastity.