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Fisherman’s Son

John Grey

You can’t get the dying fish out of your head,
how hard and uselessly it breathed,
the thrashing of its tail,
whacking of its head against the ground.
And the big eye looking up at you
even as your father gripped its gray body,
fingers working like a weaver’s
to remove the hook.
It was not the fish’s world, that’s for sure.
Nor yours either as you sat there,
ordered not to say a word
nor make a sound
when the line was cast
and even dumber
in your father’s triumph.
And then the stillness of the creature
laid out on the bank with three others,
a choir of death
that only you heard singing.

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