Gyroscope Review 15-1 | Page 11

The Museum Fish by Steve Klepetar strains across a long wall brilliant in its many colors on a sea of nails it swims subtle curve from silver tail to shadows of its sullen mouth, has nothing to say to air dead black eye reflects a flash, rolls out to nowhere sharp gills glint green, scales tinged purple-blue flash highlights of red gold in waves of artificial light and somewhere a boat hovers above the reed bed swaying in swells, where eyes twist into nets and lips pucker with every breath and gurgling sea trembles as fingers bend hard into iron hooks Gyroscope Review 10 !