Trinary!

[extrapenguin]

In honor of revisiting the Uplift universe to gather squeespiration about my favorite dolphin, my journal's subtitle is now # If you're great at leaping — bite the sun! # It's a poem quote from David Brin's Aficionado, anthologized into Existence but available free online, about the start of the dolphin uplift program.

I also found Startide Rising for free on Google Books! It's not a complete preview, but I collected all the Trinary haikus found therein:

* The stars shake with storms
        * The waters below roll thunder–
                * Still, are we wet, love? *

* Slow your travel–boy sled-rider *
* Exploring pod–does gather hither *
* Hikahi comes–we wait here for her *

* Flame-fluked I–Hikahi call you *
* Dorsal listening–ventral doing *
* Laugh at my words–but first obey them *
* Gather at the sled–and listen! *

* Ladder climber–Sharp-eyed rhymer *
* Call a fix–for seeking finders *
* Trill sonar–through the leaf blinders *

* Holding off–the sea-squid's beak*
* Suckers tight–and outlook bleak *
* Havoc done–on Ssassia wreaked!*

* They stand in my road,
        The mad, ancient, nasty things
                Tell them ‘move, or else!’ *

* Count the joys of movement?–
        First among advantages:
                Absence of Boredom– *

* Echoes of the shore
        Are like drifting feathers
                Dropped by pelicans! *

* To be noticed by–
        A humpback
* To be credited
        At last
                For being me *

* Hands and fire?
        Hands and fire!
* Use them, use them
        To leap higher!
* Dreams and song?
        Dreams and song!
* Use them, use them
        To leap-long! *

Happy Yuletide, everyone. I'm already all in the mood because I got to think about Creideiki again. :D