
Found: A Foot Out of Water
It was just a foot
in the running gutter,
just hanging
down.
~ he shrugged ~
It looks like
a bloody big squealing
fish to me,
he said.
Poem form “Puente” and Found Poetry, text in Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris, © 1989 Yazoo Digital, Arrow; 1st edition (7 May 2009) iBooks, pages 176, 395-396. Image Hieronymus Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights cc:00. Originally written for The Poeming Found Poetry Challenge 2021. The form Puente is featured at dVerse Poets. © Misky 2021
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