A Poem For Today -The Fish

[KEN DICKINSON]

Suggested by Kurt

THE FISH

The first fish
I ever caught
would not lie down
quiet in the pail
but flailed and sucked
at the burning
amazement of the air
and died
in the slow pouring off
of rainbows. Later
I opened his body and separated
the flesh from the bones
and ate him. Now the sea
is in me: I am the fish, the fish
glitters in me; we are
risen, tangled together, certain to fall
back to the sea. Out of pain,
and pain, and more pain
we feed this feverish plot, we are nourished
by the mystery.

MARY OLIVER

Sent from my iPhone

[Isabel Torres-Carrilho]

"We are nourished by the mystery"

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[Rafael Edwards]

the first fish 

I ever caught

(and the only one)

slapped around 

for a while but I had him

by the mouth

It was in lake Conroe, 

before sunrise

The man filled me with instruction

on how to catch fish

and I did not get much

of what he said

but I did get a little white bass

still, just like that

beginner's luck.

Then all the others came

and spent the day, pop popping beer

talking and talking no politics no faith

out of respect and then

night came, and we all walked 

home, and the only fish caught came too

dead but heavily present. 

We dined on beef.

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[Chris Wells]

I love this - sounds kind of like Billy Collins😎

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