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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