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Treasure
Pumpkinseed. Or bluegill, maybe. But maybe not,
because of those orange marks; its gill flap has a red spot.
Sunshine gilts the clear lake water and shafts
clean through to the bottom sand,
ground by ice and waves from granite chunks,
but now a gold-glittered stage
for yellow perch, blacknose shiners,
and all the silvery minnows zip, zipping.
And the pumpkinseed or bluegill
waving its common tail to me--
belly down on this wooden dock. And pocketless.
Treasure
Pumpkinseed. Or bluegill, maybe. But maybe not,
because of those orange marks; its gill flap has a red spot.
Sunshine gilts the clear lake water and shafts
clean through to the bottom sand,
ground by ice and waves from granite chunks,
but now a gold-glittered stage
for yellow perch, blacknose shiners,
and all the silvery minnows zip, zipping.
And the pumpkinseed or bluegill
waving its common tail to me--
belly down on this wooden dock. And pocketless.
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