Do Fish Ever Sleep?

Do Fish Ever Sleep?

Dr Abe V Rotor

Fish, pastel drawing by Angelica Mijares, then 9 years old

Summer Art Workshop for Children, SPUQC, circa 2001

Once I wondered if ever fish sleep,

     Unless by sleep they remain still

In some quiet pool, like the cows and sheep,

     After their fill lie on a grassy hill.

Could either, I ask, bring about man’s ease

     And cease his mind to wonder and wander?

And where is that pool or that hill at peace,

     Save Flanders, or some place ever after?