The Ballad of a Fish

I learned recently that May 2nd is World Tuna Day. It’s all about trying to stop overfishing in the Pacific, which is a serious subject. But I was having a silly day, so my poem is far from solemn …

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THE BALLAD OF A FISH

an eighteen-year-old tuna                                   
while swimming the world
bumped into a schooner
whose sails were close-furled

thus tilting a crooner
with hair tightly curled
out of orbit solar & lunar
into one sandy and pearled

while the net-munching tuna
flicked fins and twirled
then dived that much sooner
through waves as they swirled

swimming happily under the moon a
bruised but much wiser young tuna

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Art by Kennedy Banning

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Those Blue Shoes for ages 7-11 … Weston’s … skill in juggling time past with time present … the plot unfolds with fast-paced action, mystery, suspense and even a ghost. Joan Givner

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