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At the Stream Receding

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“Man stands holding prey, his scaled fish.”

Advanced Writing CoursePoetry
 

After Fishing (1981) by Jean-Michel Basquiat

 

 

Man stands holding prey, his scaled fish.
Wire runs through flesh, throat,

to his spinal cord and cage, like LEDs
through evergreens indoors.

 

 

 

 

“At the Stream Receding” was originally written in Professor Scott Hightower’s Fall 2017 Advanced Writing Course, “The Art and Craft of Poetry.”

Thumbnail image cropped from A Pastoral Landscape with a Stream (c. 1890) by Daniel Kotz.

 
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