He began to pity the great fi sh that he had
hooked. He is wonderful and strange and
who knows how old he is, he thought. Never
have I had such a strong fi sh nor one who
acted so strangely. Perhaps he is too wise to
jump. He could ruin me by jumping or by a
wild rush. But perhaps he has been hooked
many times before and he knows that this is
how he should make his fi ght.
Ernest Hemingway
( The Old Man and the Sea)
Here is the Sea of Indifference, glazed with salt […]
this is the sea town of myth and story
when the fi shing fl eets
went bankrupt
here is where the jobs were
on the pier
processing frozen fi shsticks
hourly wages and no shares […]
then yes let it be
these are small distinctions
where do we see it from is the question
Adrienne Rich
(An Atlas of the Diffi cult World)