Eve Alexandra is the author of The Drowned Girl, winner of the 2002 Wick Poetry Prize. She received a BA from Sarah Lawrence College and an MFA from the University of Pittsburgh and teaches writing at the University of Vermont.

Fish Hook

by Eve Alexandra

The world is full of what I’ve lost.

September eats the Ausable,
the belly of the brook trout is bright
as the wing of the monarch.


I consider telling you about these two fish
or the whole river of them. How they scissor
each other, how they flick and shimmer.
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