Cloud Fishing

To fish from a cloud in the sky You must find a comfortable spot, Spend a day looking down Patiently, clear-sighted. Peer at your ceiling: Where a light dangles, hook & line Could be slipping through. Under the hull of a boat A fish will see things this way, Looking up while swimming by — A wavering pole’s refraction Catching its eye. What will you catch? With what sort of bait? Take care or you’ll catch yourself, A fish might say, As inescapable skeins of shadow Scatter a net Over the face of the deep.