fishing paste! i caught nothing today because my hook was 12 stories tall. (your natural impulse is to think "huge hook, too bulky" but it was a very large lake with fish bigger than a parking garage. i was just unlucky.) 010723 ... Annie111 I've never been fishing. Once I threw my shiny steel hook, And it sluiced through the water Into cool grays. Rainbow bait tugged down by the slime slick seagrass I had red metal dragon scales. The trout, with their dead eyes and suction cup mouths Stared a little I saw silver minnows Nickels thrown from heaven And catfish crawling with cobwebbed lips Once or twice a shark shuddered By my belly I danced with a clown fish in his striped suit While he skipped his school The cool water beat our flailing fins Together like frothy egg whites I thought I'd caught him A goldfish, startled, smiled at me Through the reeds And the metal tooth, thick and wretched Hooked him I lost the clown fish to the air, most likely. Like I said, I've never been fishing 011213 ... girl_jane poor little fishy- 020519 what's it to you? who go blather from