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Impossible Dreaming
by JoSelle Vanderhooft
Spear the rainbow trout and open him
window-wide. Beneath his reflective scales,
beneath argent fat and silt-slipping muscle
his bones spread like seagull wings
against the sanguine gloaming.
Still the grey-winged gull and open her
like a mansion’s door. Beneath soft down,
beneath pearlescent jelly and wound muscle
her bones branch like a trout’s spine
against the mirrored surf.
This is an ancient contradiction
a paradox no dissection can explain.
instead we must look into cloudy time
when the mountains rang with dragon song
and the thrombic beat of leather wings.
Ossuary (Sam's Dot Publishing, 2007)