A cold hook pierces a fish
And the fish pierces the hook
Transparent line pulls out of water
Blue scales glistening
The fish seemed heavenly
Before it became heavy

Heavy
Is the fish
Its salty sea smell no longer heavenly
Gently the fish is wrenched from the hook
Silver metal glistening
With blood and water

The fish reaches for the water
The water now too heavy
The fish’s eyes, dilated, glistening
The body later reveals unborn fish
Their incubator disfigured by the hook
The fish’s meat no longer heavenly

The fish does not taste heavenly
But of bloody saltwater
The taste makes me wonder, how deep the hook
Penetrated the fish, making it so heavy
As the poor fish
Lays dead and glistening

I wash my hands of scales once glistening
Scales no longer heavenly
The fish
Never will return to water
But in my stomach heavy
Laid heavy on the hook

Hooks continue to pierce fish
Water remains cold, salty, and glistening
Heavenly, the fish ceases to be when heavy