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		Poems about Fish
		Ennui by Marianne Moore

		Fishmonger by Marsden Hartley

		Flying Fish: An Ode [excerpt] by Charles Wharton Stork

		Goldfish Are Ordinary by Stacie Cassarino

		The Fish by Elizabeth Bishop

		The Fish by Marianne Moore

		The Fish, the Man, and the Spirit by Leigh Hunt

		Your Catfish Friend by Richard Brautigan

Thumping
by William Corbett

Fisherman's arm Up and down Like a pump handle The old-fashioned way Flashing a large silver Spangle off the bottom Where lakers lurk in August. Barefoot Thelonious and Bruno Run in the grass of memory.


Copyright © 2011 by Willam Corbett. Reprinted from The Whalen Poem with the permission of Hanging Loose Press.