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Poem: "The Fish That People Don't See"
Name: ysabetwordsmith
Title: "The Fish That People Don't See"
Colors: Vellum #17 Cladistics
Supplies and Styles: None.
Word Count: 146
Rating: G
Warnings: No standard warnings apply.
The following poem comes from my suburban fantasy series Monster House, in which humans live alongside various creatures of folklore. This is a sequel to "Pet Projects" and "alien aquarium," which detail the challenges of finding a pet suitable for such a mixed household. The narrator is a blind girl who sees by means of a magical artifact, so her perspective is a bit different than that of people with ordinary vision.
"The Fish That People Don't See"
Most people don't understand
what I see in the alien aquarium.
To them it just looks like a lava lamp
whose red-violet fluid clashes
with its yellow-green wax.
The Eye of Fate shows me
the strangely shifting shapes
of the hyperspace aliens,
long flowing veils of fins and tails
like chartreuse curtains,
their faces like bubble-eye goldfish,
only their eyes poking through
into this dimension.
Once in a while,
somebody sees them blink.
I wondered why anybody
would want to live in an aquarium
but Grandma just laughed
and explained that they were
studying the cladistics of the Earth
and how all creatures were related,
from plants to people,
from epiphytes at the top of a rainforest
to the giant tube worms of black smokers.
Sometimes it's not about
how you can be seen,
but about what you can see.
ysabetwordsmith Title: "The Fish That People Don't See"
Colors: Vellum #17 Cladistics
Supplies and Styles: None.
Word Count: 146
Rating: G
Warnings: No standard warnings apply.
The following poem comes from my suburban fantasy series Monster House, in which humans live alongside various creatures of folklore. This is a sequel to "Pet Projects" and "alien aquarium," which detail the challenges of finding a pet suitable for such a mixed household. The narrator is a blind girl who sees by means of a magical artifact, so her perspective is a bit different than that of people with ordinary vision.
"The Fish That People Don't See"
Most people don't understand
what I see in the alien aquarium.
To them it just looks like a lava lamp
whose red-violet fluid clashes
with its yellow-green wax.
The Eye of Fate shows me
the strangely shifting shapes
of the hyperspace aliens,
long flowing veils of fins and tails
like chartreuse curtains,
their faces like bubble-eye goldfish,
only their eyes poking through
into this dimension.
Once in a while,
somebody sees them blink.
I wondered why anybody
would want to live in an aquarium
but Grandma just laughed
and explained that they were
studying the cladistics of the Earth
and how all creatures were related,
from plants to people,
from epiphytes at the top of a rainforest
to the giant tube worms of black smokers.
Sometimes it's not about
how you can be seen,
but about what you can see.
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One thing I like about this character is how differently she perceives the world. She's always aware of what is seen and what is unseen, and the divergence between eyesight and insight.