Needlefish

In that instant,  dear daughter, when they flashed like cupid’s arrow through the current  of saltwater where you splashed, more narrow and more terse than any gleam, I thought I felt  within my gut love’s old curse entering the dream — that through no fault of yours but beauty, fresh  as it is fierce,  you should become as bait to any fish whose point would pierce, as if from nowhere, while I wait.

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