Thursday, 27 January 2011

THEN INTO THE BIG BLACK

then into the big black
came a fish of gold

we were just somewhere
it was swimming through
- the world at its back pushing it on

its fugitive gold suddenly there 
in our unlit seas: cross-marked 
by all the waves it had eaten 
which had tried to eat it

from then on we followed it -
using the faint light it left behind 
in our songs, our celebrations





(The Goldfish - by Paul Klee)