Fish

Fishermen survive month at sea in ice box. Vancouver Sun headline.

The early fish are fishers
harvesting brother fish
in the ancient sea.
Early fishers leave

the ancient sea,
learn to breathe the air,
and walk the land,
learn to build spears,

harpoons, nets, hooks
and royal coachman flies.
The early fishers
go back to the sea in ships

with their spears,
nets, and hooks
to harvest their brothers
in ever increasing numbers

and put them in salt,
on ice and on the grill,
and the ancient sea
puts the fishers on ice.