Today I Am Not Such A Hero As Yesterday
Kristin Bird

I do not remember the fishtank blinking
above the couch in the living room.

It was surely lighted because of the hour.
I do not remember the material
of the blanket. I don't remember the hour.

I do not remember daybreak.
Neither of us were crazy,

no crazier than the other
or anyone else. I only remember relief
that needed no convincing.

The fish (Faulkner's fish, the small kind,
disinterested, named) was almost as huge
as ourselves.

I am amazed by all I do not remember.
We are pulled through the eye of the fish,
one tragedy after another.