DREAM VESSELS #31: Fish Farm FIRST DRAFT
—From a collage by Marsha Connell
A woman bends to plant rice, the fish test the air.
Parrotfish, and butterflyfish nosing the fish kite.
Carpe diem! Schools of fish seize the air.
The groupers hover around the woman,
a starfish reaches for the leaves of plants.
A flounder eyes up the situation.
In the midst of all this, something rises,
plantlike, from the vegetable kingdom,
a primeval stand of fern fronds,
fiddlenecks anchor the coral gardens
to the garden above the sea.
The mountains rise like a wall behind the village.
Two blue keys, perhaps, fishing boats
casting their nets, a multitude of fish later,
and there are real fish, just nosing around,
seeking their cousins in the churning air.
Summer 1992
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