Under Amber Moon,
Poacher's arrow targets gar.
Warden nabs his ass.
***
A madtom stung me
On the ball of my right thumb.
He's dead and sorry.
***
With a monstrous maw
Stretching and straining wider,
Sculpin swallows prey.
***
Diablo's holdout:
Thrashing in the desert sun,
Pupfish perishes.
***
Climbing out of creek,
The game warden yells to me,
"What's in the bucket?"
***
How was I to know,
Happily seining minnows,
This was a trout stream?
***
As the spring rains fall
Creeks swell with fishermen seeking
A fishy treasure
***
As the spring rain falls
Dogue Creek Snakeheads crawl upstream
Caught for a bounty
***
Slithering Channa
Among the native cyprinids
Devour the Potomac
***
Big teeth, swims on land
Thousands so near Capital
They are here to stay
***
But, it is DC
Politicians, Lawyers
One more slimy thing
***
Congress fights, bickers
Endangered Species Act torn
What an awful waste
***
Other problems loom
Asian carp leap into boats
Knock down man, bring doom
***
Eat all the plankton
Filter water clear, no food
For mussels, young fish
***
Water plants grow
Eurasian Water Milfoil
Hyacinth and more
***
Block our waterway
Grow fast, kill our plants and fish
No one cares, they stay
***
No big teeth on these
Cannot crawl overland, breath air
SciFi, no movie.
***
No one cares unless
Monsters of the deep be made
Or a bounty paid
***
They are here to stay
Exotic species every
place we look and find
***
Too little funds and
Too few studies done to know
How their spread to slow
***
Gentle bowfin As the spring rain
falls As the spring rain falls
Mistaken identity Diapause ending for the
Salamanders awake
Killed as snakehead Hidden buried eggs
Crawl to vernal pools
- Hey, this is how they came formatted when I got 'em! I dunno how they are
supposed to read.
***
As the spring rain falls,
The pH and hardness drops
Spawning time has come
***
Lepomis with grace
Muddy banks offer safe shelter
Whither goest thou?
***
The dace swims calmy
Neither knowing nor caring
Its name has been changed.
***
The cavefish trembles.
Upstairs, thousands of people
Are flushing toilets.
***
The extinct darter
Worries about our future
Entombed in a jar.
***
The moon is rising
The fish are always biting
My lure is chuggiing
***
Kerplunk, and kerplunk
The bass can't resist any more
My nerves are on edge
***
How scary it is
When the loon wails at night
Right next to my boat
***
My Rainbow Darter,
Vying for national fish,
Will you beat Bowfin?
***
Bowfin, a fish "dog".
You eat all that is in sight.
Can fame escape you?
***
Cyprinid minnow!
Pick one? How can it be done?
All are so lovely!
***
Pumpkinseed sunfish!
Protuberant or hump-backed?
National beauty?
***
Oncorhynchus fish.
A wild river you call home;
Or, at least, your young!
***
American flag,
A fish reflects your color!
And eats algae too?
***
Wisconsin grows cold
Fish retreat to murky depths
To be caught no more
***
A net in my trunk
You want to seine the water
Should I let you out?
***
A frozen seine net.
I pull you from the water.
What was I thinking?
***
effervescent waters
turbulent wild in power
my soul is soothed
***
gaze on the surface
reflections all eternal
diversity below
***
daily distractions
harried life, not for living
some will never know
***
what treasure
such primitive obsession
promises to bestow
***
Unforgettable,
Inspiring Admiration:
Alligator Gar
***
Aphredoderus:
Urogenitalical
Abnormality
***
parched desolate desert
a pool of water glistens
pupfish paradise
***
Proud springtime bluegill
Guarding their little castles
Each one is a king
***
Stealthy pickerel
Waiting, watching, silently
Flash! Gulps down dinner
--Irate
If at first you don't succeed... redefine success.
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