Dead Fish

You leapt into the rain thinking it was prey

Landed on the patio

Granite scales of the beast.

Each leap into the watery air

Every struggle

Took you farther from home.

So it was you died

Misadventure

A fish out of water

My tears cannot revive you now.

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Illustrated Poetry of Love and Other Afflictions

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