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How It Is In Fishing

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© Providence College  The author(s) permits users to copy, distribute, display, and perform this work under the following conditions: (1) the original author(s) must be given proper attribution; (2) this work may not be used for commercial purposes; (3) the users may not alter, transform, or build upon this work; (4) users must make the license terms of this work clearly known for any reuse or distribution of this work. Upon request, as holder of this work’s copyright, the author(s) may waive any or all of these conditions.  The Prose Poem: An International Journal is produced by The Berkeley Electronic Press (bepress) for the Providence College Digital Commons. http://digitalcommons.providence.edu/prosepoems/ THE PROSE POEM: AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL  Volume 1 | 1992 How It Is In Fishing  Richard Hague  Richard Hague HOW IT IS IN FISHING Here are the stars in our fingertips launching messages to the dark which is like a mother. Many things move in her that we do not understand. We become electric and attentive because we are needy. Nightly we dream that what we send forth into waters will attract them. We dream that we will become better than ourselves, and that they will reply with a tentative warmth, as in the meeting of distant cousins. □ Yet we are sorry when we feel their gentle tugs at our frontiers. Somehow we have tricked them. We have misled them for reasons they may never understand. □ We had better tell them when we bring them in that we are kin, that we admire their liturgical eyes, their beautiful colors and delicate spots like the windows of cathe-drals. □ But they fade so swiftly. If we want them to know about us, we had better tell them fast. 

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