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The Youthful Santiago of Seychelles

  • Katie Grotzinger
  • Sep 4, 2015
  • 1 min read

Like a Hemingway hero, she becomes

an accidental passenger,

taken above in her tiny boat

by a massive fish.

She can’t ask his name

or recognize his voice, but

below, he is covered in

spots - a giant footprint

in a constellation unique to him.

She tries to memorize them

so she can recognize him,

make his spots her spots,

and finally make him -

gigantic to the point of

fisherman’s quiet respect - her’s.

A shark with tiny, useless teeth

doesn’t fight or bite but

he does something worse.

He dives below into blues

she can’t see and

leaves her with her own current.

 
 
 

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