What would it be like, the writing of fish? Something shining, I think, a muscular, flowing calligraphy, a Piscean script— accents of whirlpool and fin flip.
Shimmering, colorful circumlocutions used, like kennings, over and over, and with lots of sudden twists and turns in the plot, breaks long as winter, slower to resolve than river fog rising.
What would it be like to write not with ink or light but with water? Describing each fresh syllable with my whole body, then erasing it all as I go, every gesture a metaphor?
I particularly enjoy writing that turns things on its side or head and this poem does that so well. Got my imagination swirling with fish penmanship! The photos only add to the images in my imagination.
Hi Jeanie,
How interesting that you are a Pisces Sun. My sister and I have Pisces Moons, as does the friend with whom I visited Como Conservatory, where these photos were taken. I always think of this mutable water sign as ruling photography and poetry.
Thanks, Jan!
I love this poem! The photographs are perfect for describing the writing of fish! Of course I am a Pisces so I may be biased.
Nothing like fluid imagination!
I particularly enjoy writing that turns things on its side or head and this poem does that so well. Got my imagination swirling with fish penmanship! The photos only add to the images in my imagination.
Hi Jeanie,
How interesting that you are a Pisces Sun. My sister and I have Pisces Moons, as does the friend with whom I visited Como Conservatory, where these photos were taken. I always think of this mutable water sign as ruling photography and poetry.
Thanks, Jan!
I love this poem! The photographs are perfect for describing the writing of fish! Of course I am a Pisces so I may be biased.
Ahh! Yes.