Shot
down
today.
Ripping out,
the bullet brings forth
line after line of eye hooked fish
thrashing madly about outside blue wrist river veins.
But it's not these fish I can't grasp,
It's this morning still
beautiful,
with you
or
not.


I
am
moving
straight, forward
perpetual man
with gears pushing and pulling till
rust settles quickly-
slow-moving,
creaky
till
stopped.