Glass: A Journal of Poetry Volume Four Issue Two
Abigail Carroll
The Way a Fish
The
way a fish
moves through water,
through light, the way
light
doubles
the body
of the fish, turns it
into a mirror of
itself,
the
mirror being
the water's invitation
to see a bright pool
of
scales where
once there was a fish,
a school of silver
coins,
a
great, green-glass
chandelier dangling
in the flow, each
cut-glass
drop
sewn like sequins
to the wind, the wind being
the way the water moves
around
the coins,
the coins being another
way to see the fish,
the way
it
moves through
water, through light
the way it doubles,
becomes
a
silver mirror, the mirror
being the fish disappearing
into a thousand
versions of itself.