Bosch Fish, by Tricia Marcella Cimera

detail, The Temptation of St. Anthony by Hieronymous Bosch (Netherlands). 1501.

Bosch Fish
 
This is unnatural
absurd.  I don’t want
wings   it’s an abomination
to fly like a bird.
I don’t wish to be ridden
like a work horse either.
All I want is to swim   swim
in iridescent    waters      
innocent of crimes    fins
and gills mine.       But
I am painted with this
brush by Bosch
who called fish liars
who lies sleeping in
his stony pious grave
while I must always fly
with sinners on my back
no water    only sky.
 
Tricia Marcella Cimera

​Tricia Marcella Cimera will forever be an obsessed reader and lover of words. Look for her work in these diverse places: Buddhist Poetry Review, The Ekphrastic Review, Foliate Oak, Fox Adoption, Hedgerow, I Am Not A Silent Poet, Mad Swirl, Silver Birch Press, Stepping Stones, Yellow Chair Review, and elsewhere.  She has a micro collection of water-themed poems called THE SEA AND A RIVER on the Origami Poems Project website.  Tricia believes there’s no place like her own backyard and has traveled the world (including Graceland).  She lives with her husband and family of animals in Illinois / in a town called St. Charles / by a river named Fox.