Wednesday, April 21, 2021

(From "Stations of Light") IX Tiberius and God’s Generous Beyond

And God said, Let the waters bring

forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life … (Genesis 1:20)

Byxxx the

shore of the lake

that drinks from

the Jordan, I will show

you how to fill your nets with

damselfish and blennies, combers,

catfish, tilapia and sardines. And later --

where to spy sand smelts and silverslides,

flathead and greyhead mullets, painted combers

and greater weavers; scorpion fish, sea bream, parrot-

fish, sole, razor fish and the common Pandora, large-eyed

dentex, dusky grouper and bonito; yellowtail amberjacks,

swordfish, smoothhounds, two-wing fighting fish, piked dogfish,

triggerfish, torpedo fish, sea urchins, shrimp scad and surgeonfish,

pomapano, Indian threadfish, sphinx and Okinawa flap-headed gobies,

scissortail sergeants, barracudas, African tetras, tunas, wahoos, eels and

morays, perches and puffers; file fishes, striated frogfish, spot nape and

glassy cardinal fishes, frogfish, Bikini wrigglers, high backed head standers,

bar cheeked and bluefin trevally, reef sharks, leopard hinds, King demoiselles,

pipefish and whitetail dascyllus, painted sweet lips, lagoon damsels, half

black triplefins, snake mackerel, wormfish, coralfish, shortfin, mako,

blacktail snappers, blubber lip snappers, pacific Gregory, pick

handle barracudas, ocellated dragonets, spiny seahorses,

large head hairtails, oxeyed scads, pacific emperors,

longface emperors, shadow fish soldiers, unicorn

fish, doublebar goatfish, dusky batfish, sixline

wasse, three-lined monocle

bream,

starry triggerfish,

star spotted grouper,

bicolor          midnight

angelfish, goldfish         x sunfish, starfish …

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