Robert Lee Jackson

Mr. Redenbach

Across the red sea
we fish from an aluminum boat;
trolling for the weak lip trout
that must be caught gently
or they break and are gone.
The low waves of the morning
scuff the flat bottom
and the air cuts our jackets
to tell us we werent listening.
Now a blue collectors booklet
of aging pennies
lies upright on a wicker shelf
at the home, next
to where we once embarked.
The water only seemed to part
for the walls of a hull
and the light that overflowed
from the black glass of space.
 

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