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Two fish float:

one slowly downstream
into the warm
currents of the known

the other tugging
against the stream,
disconsolate twin,

the golden 
marriage hook
tearing its throat.


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Added: 1 Apr 2002 | Last Read: 12 Sep 2026 2:11 AM | Viewed: 4123 times

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