Why fish are not blind - a poem, an illustration and a reading

Why fish are not blind

What is this face without eyes
but whose every surface is eyes?
I plunge into and against oceans
not because I am not afraid
but because it is necessary
to brave them

The bream know
you are in their dream.
They may defend it.

In the shallows
snook hover over
the sandlands
as ghosts

If you do not peer
into the kingdoms
under the waves
there is no way
you can extract the pearl

Everywhere the colour has come out
of these
inimitable
sacred
missing
floors

by Judith Huang

As mentioned in our conversation with @johnnydavis54 and @Douggins - this is the final poem in a sequence ( 1) of twenty I wrote at the end of the 2019. They came in a run (the word we use around here for when the fish are all biting and you pull them out of the ocean one by one by one) after a period of lying fallow and making a practice of The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron.

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