Fisherman

 Fisherman

Dr Abe V Rotor

Kaohsiung, Taiwan 1992  Photo by the author c. 1992

I wish I were this fisherman by the sea

with the world at my back, that I'll be free;

or that I'm seen this way through a keyhole,

from a restless throng, yet part of its whole;

The sea roars, the wind hisses through a rock -

and I, by the sea with the world at my back,

deserve not at all, more so when I am gone

to wear the shoes of the great Fisherman.~

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