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Christian Century,  April 8, 2008  by Anne Yarbrough

   All winter the fish lounge at the bottom of the pond
   squinting up now and then toward the cloudy light
   beyond the ice, but mostly skulking behind cold wet shadows
   like teenage guys down in the basement
   hanging out, waiting for life to happen
   dreaming elongated nursery rhymes
   feeling the submerged sluggish vibrations of the earth
   a faint quiver of the moon's pull on the tides.

   After Easter, though, they dopily drift toward the surface
   where I am waiting patiently with
   something like civilization in mind.
   Sooner or later they'll make the connection:
   they get their daily bread from me.
   And in return I get
   a glimpse of their elusive grace,
   their perfect freedom organized into evening ritual.

COPYRIGHT 2008 The Christian Century Foundation
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