Upon Seeing Trout in a Plate

We caught them,

                     all three,

victoriously,

with tight lines,

and flying water,

                and the stabbing,

dodging

end of a rod.

And they fought,

each for its life,

desperate in struggle,

with splashing glory,

and the pain of survival.

But now,

with their heads gone,

I wish we could do it again.

© Peter Hartwig, 2013

Lithograph by Edouard Pingret
Wikimedia Images, from the
Bibliotheque municipale de Toulouse