Bonefish Psalm
     (from the Bahamas)

And lo he made his feet to walk
upon the tidal flats so that
the waves lapped at his ankles
and his tennis shoes were made to
fill with sand. And he reached
that he might find his sun glasses
through which he might see a bonefish
and polarize the light which made
his eyes to squint and his head
to throb. And he knew that they
were not there in his pocket but
in the automobile which had brought him.
And for many hours he chased things
that looked like bonefish but
were not. And he stalked the shadow
of a small cloud across a large bay,
and he spent an hour sneaking up
on some weeds.
He stalked a shredded inner-tube.
And soon he did not seem
to need sun glasses, for the sun
had done something funny to his eyes
so that everything was made to look
darker anyway. And then it was that
the water erupted around him,
for the bonefish had come unto him
and he had kicked one.

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