Long Poems About Fish

"Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under water, unapparent for the most part, and treacherously hidden beneath the loveliest tints of azure..... Consider all this; and then turn to this green, gentle, and most docile earth; consider them both, the sea and the land; and do you not find a strange analogy to something in yourself?"

                                                     ― Herman Melville, Moby Dick



Cascading
the relentless
wave-lipped suck
of seawater,
seeking surprises ...

Necessity in death and dying;
its cold nature a hardened breast
  of rocks nursing the evolution    
of time and time gone by  
   
Come the coastline in season  
  burning its way through glassy sand  
shattered shards of granules    
  sinking beneath its watery breath    
   
You remembered your mother    
  that Nova Scotian ice-rattle of lungs;    
their spindly pinnacles dissolving    
  under arthritic air brittle with bone  
   
You sit, serenading a seal    
  its interest lacking in...

In Genesis chapter one God presents Himself as a DARWINIST.
For Darwin said that Nature created life (the great variety of species) thru "Natural Selection".
Well God in Genesis One says something similar.
According to verse 20, "God said, 'Let the waters BRING FORTH the moving creatures that have life..'"
Then verse 24 continues,"Let the earth bring forth the living creatures.."
Now if we take "the waters" and "the earth" together, they add up to NATURE.
So God the Creator is turning the work of creating life and all the species over Nature !! ...