more parasitic & mythological, aguacero de pescado, airbreathing

but sickly, trailing mucus & being taxonomically confused for an

amphibian. a sighting every several years like bluey, phantasm of

the bay. a kind which belongs in the deep sea but deflates when
oxygenated. you’ll never see the rain again. there’s a deluge that

nobody can explain. some fish redistribute their scales and others

hoard; you are either rainbow fish or neoliberal. or a commodity

of eyes and skin picked apart for soup and grafting. mass deaths
because of the bacteria: a mortality event. atlantic salmon on the

rocks precut & ready to be sunned. what better way to go? than in

plague, bloodlet. i dive & can’t see the open water. it swims in my

eyes & school’s out. cruelty is a whetstone but to eat is to love. so
worship & sanctify. among friends there is always a new place to

go. delicacy is the construction of something destroyed but dainty.

jagged open mouth & languid motion, i do not want to move, only

for prey to swim into the belly & for others to be scared to swallow.



Note: This work includes a reference to Marcus Pfister, The Rainbow Fish (1992).