lovely fishes flash throughwhere the bridgeis risentheir silver sidescatch the lightfrom sunshine’s prismI used to tryto catch and hook themoh my may Ibe forever forgivenJeff Cloves
Illustration: Claire Palmer
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lovely fishes flash throughwhere the bridgeis risentheir silver sidescatch the lightfrom sunshine’s prismI used to tryto catch and hook themoh my may Ibe forever forgivenJeff Cloves
Illustration: Claire Palmer
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I love this illustration. The word etheric came to mind “beyond the sphere of the moon” ;
Comment by Edward P Johnston on 29 August, 2020 at 6:47 pmThe “lovely fishes” is wonderful poetry that brings me to 60 years ago and a crystal lake and trying
to do the same to those bream but happily not succeeding or at least throwing them back.
I hope I understand the “for” .
And for sure I’d “like” this if I facebooked.
Thank you, Jeff. I am so very happy that those beautiful fish are deeply in your heart now, and no longer in your net.
Comment by Heidi Stephenson on 30 August, 2020 at 10:59 amThank you very much for genuinely appreciating fishes, Mr. Cloves, and for your regret in having previously tried to harm them. You are not alone in that! You can read similar accounts of people who fished before realizing how cruel it is at: https://fishfeel.org/action/your-page/ We will be adding your wonderful poem to Fish Feel’s poetry page: https://fishfeel.org/resources/arts/#accordion-1-5 Our sincere gratitude to Ms. Stephenson for having inspired it.
Comment by Mary Finelli on 31 August, 2020 at 3:57 pmThanks Edward!
Comment by Claire on 2 September, 2020 at 8:17 pm