Thank you tng. I'm glad you enjoyed this, like I said on soundcloud I thought of you telling me (a long time ago now) that you would sometimes play these poems for your daughter when I recorded this. The Fish is quite long though, that's the only reason I haven't tried to memorize it, although I have bits and pieces now at least. I can never read this poem without thinking of my own poetry professor reading it out loud to us at the very beginning of my very first creative writing: poetry workshop. Also, I fake it, but I actually have the occasional awful pronunciation - gained from a childhood spent reading, not talking, so I knew all the ten-bit words but not how to say them - it's very possible I'm just saying the word incorrectly! I said "affidavit" incorrectly for weeks at my new job before anyone corrected me.