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Love Fish to Wander by Jack Phillips

2 This celestial portal reflexively opens into the primal waters of your favorite pond as the refractive bend
of your paddle reveals. Turtles, certain crustaceans and quite so fish
other ovaline creatures (polliwog clams waterbeetle leaches) slip easily through. Show us the way that is,
when not preoccupied with rolling
ashore the astral egg from whence Aphrodite is born, ascends, and gathers her slippery supplicants to
swim…


Love Fish to Wander (footnoted one-line haiku)  | Jack Phillips


Pisces1 loves the night to wander2 and my soul3 the whole fish.4

A poetic text exploring themes of Pisces symbolism, celestial connections, and the essence of love through astrological imagery.
Artistic watercolor illustration of a bee on a black circular background.
About the Author:
Side profile of a man with curly hair and a beard, wearing a blue headband and jacket, surrounded by a natural landscape with fallen leaves.

Jack Phillips is a naturalist, poet, nature writer, and founder of The Naturalist School, a nonprofit organization devoted to wild creativity and poetics of place. He is a Pushcart nominee, a poetry editor for Magpie Zine, and his poetry has appeared in The Dewdrop, Amethyst Review, Wild Roof Journal, Canary, EcoTheo Review, and others. He lives in the Missouri-Kicakatuus watershed and teaches ecopsychology at Creighton University School of Medicine. 

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