(He’s a drifter, always
floating around her, has
nowhere else to go. He wishes
she would sing, not much, just the scales
or take some notice,
give him the fish eye.)
(Bounded rounded walls,
she makes fish eyes
and kissy lips at him, darts
behind pebbles, swallows
his charms hook, line and sinker.)
(He’s bowled over. He would
take her to the ocean, they could
count the waves. There,
in the submarine silence, they could share
their deepest secrets. Dive for pearls
like stars.)
(But her love’s since
gone belly-up. His heart sinks
like a fish. He drinks
like a stone. Drown those sorrows,
states emptily through glass.)
(the reason: she said
she wanted)
(and he could not give)
a life
beyond the
(bowl)
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