- Arrivals
I don’t quite know how it occurredthat this great fish has appearedalmost fully formed, it seemedto crowd out all else in my aquarium
Perhaps, this creature of the depthsalways was, just out of sightsecretly feeding on hidden longingand now demands acknowledging
With the swish of a majestic tailit’s upset my incidental decor—gone the rubber diver and plastic treasure.The glass frame itself can’t be far behind… [End Page 32]
Yahia Lababidi’s books include Balancing Acts: New & Selected Poems, 1993-2015 (Press 53, 2016); an essay collection, Trial by Ink: From Nietzsche to Belly Dancing (Common Ground, 2010); and a collection of aphorisms, Signposts to Elsewhere (Jane Street, 2008), selected for Books of the Year by the Independent.