A Silent Poetry Reading
February 02, 2016
Cloud Fishing
To fish from a cloud in the sky
You must find a comfortable spot,
Spend a day looking down
Patiently, clear-sighted.
Peer at your ceiling:
Where a light dangles, hook & line
Could be slipping through.
Under the hull of a boat
A fish will see things this way,
Looking up while swimming by —
A wavering pole’s refraction
Catching its eye.
What will you catch?
With what sort of bait?
Take care or you’ll catch yourself,
A fish might say,
As inescapable skeins of shadow
Scatter a net
Over the face of the deep.
by Phillis Levin - Poetry (2016)
Thank you for an interesting perspective from poetry and the perfect photo-poem match. They are both beautiful!
Posted by: Bonny | February 02, 2016 at 07:50 AM
Very cool.
Posted by: claudia | February 02, 2016 at 08:13 AM
It's good to see a few of us still hanging on to this tradition. I love reading poetry around the blogosphere.
Inquiring minds want to know: did you pick this poem because of the phrase in the final quatrain, "inescapable skeins of shadow"? I thought it was a line that particularly appealed to the knitter in me.
Posted by: sprite | February 02, 2016 at 10:18 AM
I like the idea of thinking about what the fish sees from under the hull of a boat.
Posted by: Carole | February 02, 2016 at 12:24 PM
I like the thought of fishing from a cloud!
Posted by: Patty | February 02, 2016 at 12:35 PM
beautiful! (and a very pleasant break from all the Groundhog Day hullabaloo)
Posted by: Mary | February 03, 2016 at 04:05 AM
Lovely - one I've not read before.
Posted by: Chris | February 03, 2016 at 07:29 AM
Beautiful. And so perfect with that photo. Thank you.
Posted by: Gale Zucker (she shoots sheep shots) | February 03, 2016 at 08:15 PM
I love this, Margene! Just beautiful!
XO
Posted by: Kym | February 04, 2016 at 05:32 AM
Oh my! What a spectacular photo of that sky...and the poem is the perfect complI & complE -ments.!
Cheers~
Posted by: Honore´ | February 04, 2016 at 07:38 AM