It’s hard to imagine fish again
with their little black silksuits,
& the how they run to heaven as one.
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Menhaden feed the bees,
cormorants, gulls
and the black eye of the river’s sister: sky.
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Providence was built
as a purple bowl: enamel, jade. That light.
Tallest buildings fill with fishes’ glass, their eyes.
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Summer in this city
sits in the sunflower seed of yellow fire.
The bee’s side as it swims in summer, alive.