FISH
Poem by Gaia Holmes
“There are plenty more
fish in the sea,”
he tells you with conviction
knowing, as he does,
the whole spectrum
of glitter, silver fin and gill.
He knows fish
that would shock
with their electric,
sheepish fish that graze
on plankton, sea furze
and the moss
that clads shipwrecks.
He knows fish
that you can trust
for their regularity,
fish that get high
on the lights
of midnight trawlers,
fish that freeze
mesmerized
by the clank and hum
of ocean liners.
He knows fish
that fall in love
with pebbles,
fish that get giddy
when wind
fingers the waves.
He knows fish
that would gracefully
take your hook
into their mouths
without wincing.
“Fish” and two other poems by Gaia Holmes appear in the Silver Birch Press Silver Anthology, available at Amazon.com.
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