Astropoetica: Volans/Flying Fish, by Nancy Ellis Taylor

Volans/Flying Fish by Nancy Ellis Taylor
I am trying too hard to understand I would have named it Chicken Foot it is more like poultry parts in the Chinese corner market I would have named it Penguin Toes it is more like flippery feet on Southern ice floes Flying fish are tourist attractions between L.A. and Catalina I am trying too hard to understand I am trying to read a vanished script I am trying In a boat in the center of the ocean city light free I turn around and around close my eyes then open them and wait to see And all I see is stars Copyright © 2003, Nancy Ellis Taylor	Volans, the Flying Fish by Johannes Hevelius
Nancy Ellis Taylor lives and writes near LAX. She gives readings locally several times a year. Her work has appeared in a variety of journals, including Xenophilia, Raven Electrick, Strange Horizons, Starline, Aldebaran* and The Magazine of Speculative Poetry. And, this November, she will be a panelist at Loscon (The Los Angeles Science Fiction Convention.)