photo courtesy of axistravel @ https://pixabay.com/en/diving-ocean-coral-sea-water-1707741/

photo courtesy of dfaen @ https://pixabay.com/en/fish-eel-water-underwater-color-1391441/

photo courtesy of simonesaponetto @ https://pixabay.com/en/moray-eel-maldives-sea-363626/

drawing courtesy of ArtsyBee @ https://pixabay.com/en/eel-vintage-drawing-snake-sea-976096/

for
all its
slippery
rubbery
twisting
thick
tough
long
skin,
the eel
reveals
a wide mouth on
a small
face:
to hook an eel
throw it a bait

Copyright © qalbin.tocastasparkle, 2008

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Author’s note:

This poem came to be written after a couple of fishing trips that yielded only eels. 🙂
Would you recognize an eel
when you see one?
To hook an eel, throw it a bait. Or a tweet,
as the case may be. 😉

— Sand Stars Journal, 5 Feb. 2017
(Photos/images of eels used with this posting are all courtesy of pixabay.com.)