Over 100 Fish Here

        by Marc Pollitt

An ancient lake-edge banquet
persists in our dust-gray photo album;
like a sizzling panfish,
its silver presence has turned golden brown.
The memory it preserves is uncertain,
save for one cryptic message
idly fountain-penned along one edge:
"Over 100 fish here," with an arrow
fletched in cerulean ink
bent towards a forgotten shore
of a forgotten lake
where, one forgotten day
a shore-fishing ship's master
cast soft squirming invitations
and snelled hook RSVPs into
a finishing school for polite young trout
who could never be so goache
as to ignore the opportunity
to join the Captain for dinner
as the evening's honored guests.

 

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