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Beluga Whale in Vancouver Aquarium by GD Anderson

[Above] Photo of GD Anderson by GD Anderson, circa 2000.

GD Anderson

Beluga Whale in Vancouver Aquarium

body is
fusiform in shape/
robust/ steering in an
unending arc through the deep
concrete pool/ time as circular/
her puffy doughboy face seemingly
smiling- there she is again- circling
under the thick glass pane/ an
advertisement of sorts for passing
tourists/ her creamy white
pectoral flippers steering like
small rounded paddles/ the blue
neon backwash slashing/ the
whale's tough melon veering
past us again/ her small
impenetrable eyes
scanning her
weary
cage

About the Poet GD Anderson

I have been writing poetry for about three years and have published close to 200 poems for a wide variety of audiences in dozens of magazines worldwide- including for children in mainstream magazines such as the School Magazine's Orbit, Blast Off and Touchdown (more than 20) and more recently in American 'underground magazines' such as Thunder Sandwich, Zygote in My Coffee, Unlikely Stories and My Favorite Bullet. My Australian credits include Social Alternatives, LinQ, New England Review, Stylus Literary Journal, Five Bells, Swyntax, FreeXpreSsion, Pixel Papers, Divan, The Mozzie, the Illawarra Mercury Magazine and various anthologies. I edit and publish the student literary journal Ephemeral and featured in a Bulletin article by Maxine McKew on 8 April 2003.
   [Above] Photo of GD Anderson by GD Anderson, circa 2000.

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