Smooth water.

Flat. Mirror shiny.

Underneath gloomy and cold.

Fish moves along.

Catches the sunlight through the reeds

drawn upwards

swims faster

- rocketing –

and with an explosion of glassy droplets smashes the surface and is momentarily free.

Glistening in the sunlight

it sparkles

then falls back downward to its own world

copyright Debbie Donovan. Published in Poetry Now,1990 Anthology, South East Vol.1.