Cloud Fishing

To fish from a cloud in the sky

You must find a comfortable spot,

Spend a day looking down

Patiently, clear-sighted.

Peer at your ceiling:

Where a light dangles, hook & line

Could be slipping through.

Under the hull of a boat

A fish will see things this way,

Looking up while swimming by — 

A wavering pole’s refraction

Catching its eye.

What will you catch?

With what sort of bait?

Take care or you’ll catch yourself,

A fish might say,

As inescapable skeins of shadow

Scatter a net

Over the face of the deep.