Circle Of Anticipation Poem by Denis Mair

(for a painting by Natali Wienstein, posted April 18,2024)
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a rapturous whirl of gamboling piscine flesh...

adjusting speed and distance to swim as a school...

performing a vortex as a ritual of togetherness...

a little while ago, they must have been scattered...

lurking in their shadowy bottom-feeding haunts...

now summoned by prospects of communal enjoyment,

eagerness draws them into a revolving procession...

a coordinated flick of tails makes a glimmering display...

streaks of light trace the eddies they stir...

and their colors swirl in a circle of radiance.