Coelacanth

Coelacanth

Thought to be sixty five million years gone
until a fisherman hooked one big one
coelacanths of generations countless
have known the similitude of the deep

eyes tuned to the far blue of faintest light,
huge mouthed, such “piscivorous drift hunters”
passed their lives in purposeful laziness
waiting adroitly in their element

point of coelaca…