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The Fish Clock.(Poem)

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| April 01, 2003 | Leach-Paholski, Carolyn | COPYRIGHT 2003 Quadrant Magazine Company, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

 
THE FISH CLOCK 
 
   Under the clay bank 
   the unegged fingerlings sleep like paper slippers, 
   coloured in passing by light, spent grass-- 
   the sand spit of eels. 
   Yet to see-- 
   to put their flat eyes to purpose 
   they dream without pictures the one dream common to fish. 
   Foxed by clouds darkening the water 
   they register increments of light 
   each finned spit of silver an unseeing gauge-a 
   camera, 
   a thermometer, 
   their inky juices pushed like mercury through flat veins. 
   They speak in ribbons of dissolved gas-needing 
   ...

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