there are dolphins

talk about boys like you might talk about dolphins
and by boys i mean men
and by men i mean manhood
and by dolphins i mean something you dream about
and wish to glimpse
but rarely do
rarely rarely do
but always find water in waves
currents being currents
nothing solid
only salt
with its sting making crust
on your lids
at the end of several months
of wasted mornings, wasted
lunches, wasted evenings
your body now curled into the shallow
white cup of the bathtub
bub
keep thinking of them dolphins
happily hidden for the moment then
dancing and humping
rising above the silly childish masses of waves
the dolphins
with their glorious promise
in flight revealed.