the fish - Popular Poems and stories from category

I caught a tremendous fish
and held him beside the boat
half out of water, with my hook
fast in a corner of his mouth.

In a cool curving world he
And ripples with dark ecstasies
The kind luxurious lapse and
Shapes all his universe to

wadethrough black
Of the crow-blue mussel-shells, one keepsadjusting the ash heaps; opening and shutting itself like aninjured fan
The barnacles which encrust the sideof the wave, cannot hide there for the submerged shafts of thesun,spli...