The Fish Meets the Water Bearer by Linda Goodman
Dear R: I wrote you a letter. Twenty paragraphs. It just went on and on. And now I have erased it. And now only the poem remains.
The Fish Meets the Water Bearer
Linda GoodmanWe searched for each other
in the most unlikely places,
among the most unlikely people,and when our paths finally crossed,
it was for reasons so entangled
in our daily bread,
and the usual trespassesthat we might not even have noticed,
except for that faint quiver of wonder
like a passing chill from the night air.We loved
and the closest we’ve come to explaining why,
is because it was you,
and because it was I.
[...] a friend recently sent me a lovely poem from it, “The Fish Meets the Water-Bearer”. I began reading the collection tonight, and while many of Goodman’s poems rely too much on sing-songy verse rhymes and astrological imagery (the blurb describes her as “the world’s best-known astrologer”), enough of them contain lines that are either spot-on insights or beautifully-turned phrases to make the book an enjoyable one. [...]
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