Thursday, May 2, 2013

Poor Mr. Trout

Swimming in the arts
cold stream swimming
eyes and heart
mountain jumping streaming.

Snowballs from high
where Colorado curvature
meets the curvature of sky
Swim, you rainbow lips quick to bite

Kaleidoscope fan your tails, you scales, through currents
where ice melts slower than summer cometh.
Suck in breath, you flapping gills,
over highways of river pebbles.

The will to eat the swim to eat
Totems be the last of ye,
pale face included,
chest high in rubber boots.

Line, flies and net fry catch.
Sun drops. Stars candelabra forward,
caroling icicle variations on a quintet theme
by Franz Composer Schubert.

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