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Amit MajmudarDecember 14, 2023

If you wonder
what that clicking
whizzing shirring
is, it’s me, fly-

fishing over
this abyss in
hopes of snagging
pike or grayling

or some deeper
biolumi-
nescent grouper,
flinging forth my

shiver-feathered
fly like prayer
arcing sinking
through the air in

search of any
water down there—
some sustaining,
tensile surface

with a face for
spirit to be
moving on, my
slow and opal-

eyed salvation
salmon waiting
silently as
thought below it.

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