Erik Knudsen: 'Fisk'

Fish

Strange fish from imagination’s freshwater:

Tiny à la fireflies, large grey

                      porous as pimpstone,

Yellow, spotted,

                      some violet with a prayer on their lips,

One brown and quivering like calf’s liver, another

Pink and transparent, its own x-ray photograph –

Yes, it’s exciting to drag for them

Completely alone in the forbidden forest,

Where one can calmly glide in one’s boat

And make friends with dragonflies

and opulent blond clouds –

See how they squirm in the net, the strange creatures!

Inedible – but I haven’t the heart to throw them out.

I’ve an old aquarium at home,

Model 1804 or thereabouts…