# Black Dog Fishing

Author: Dakaar
Tags: Poetry

Freeform poetry from the introspective collection, Black Dog, that runs with a folkloric figure that is often associated with misfortune and used as a metaphor for depression. Black Dog looks at this figure and gives him a voice, letting him bark back at a society that's already made up its mind about him.

He wishes he had the wherewithal to breathe water.

 

To sink&nbsp;

 

willingly,&nbsp;

 

without drowning,&nbsp;

 

and be surrounded but still himself,&nbsp;

 

a nested bubble&nbsp;

 

in a force that would hold him.&nbsp;

 

 

It weaves like a dragon between the green -&nbsp;

 

the fish in a puddle moves with more self-assurance&nbsp;

 

than the rangy lope

 

of a Black Dog,&nbsp;

 

a purity of purpose that’s as effortless&nbsp;

 

and dazzling&nbsp;

 

as the metal shimmer of fins.&nbsp;

 

 

To move through something,&nbsp;

 

and let it lift you.&nbsp;

 

The Black Dog holds his snout under

 

to watch the fish menace snails that bead

 

as unhurried perspiration on the pebbles,&nbsp;

 

and the fish swells with himself,&nbsp;

 

made large as a splash of blood&nbsp;

 

blossoming in the water.&nbsp;

 

He’s as big as he believes himself to be.&nbsp;

 

 

Sure of his magnificence&nbsp;

 

the fish rises up,&nbsp;

 

sips the air,

 

and the Black Dog snorts bubbles

 

and lifts his dripping chops

 

and reels at the inequity - he can breathe my world while his, an abyss,

 

I can’t even howl into.

Source: https://sofurry.com/s/Jew5q4bn
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