PISCES

Who said to the trout,
You shall die on Good Friday
To be food for a man
And his pretty lady?

It was I, said God,
Who formed the roses
In the delicate flesh
And the tooth that bruises.

Note: "Good Friday" is the Friday before Easter Sunday;
it is the day when the death of Jesus on the cross
is remembered (Mark 15:22-41).
It is a day when there are solemn services in churches to remind us
of the sad events of the first Good Friday.

Fish symbolizes Jesus in the early Chirstianity and
Wales is famous for the trout.
Here the trout might be a symbol for the Jesus dying on the cross and Wales itself.

After Good Friday, Easter Sunday comes.

(c)&(p) Yoshifum! Nagata

"Pisces,"
from Song at the Year's Turning
You can also find this in
COLLECTED POEMS 1945-1990(J.M.Dent, 1993).
background image: trout in Wales