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To Fishermen

By Carol Frost b. 1948 Carol Frost

No more savage art: filleting: a deft pressure along the

backbone

from tail fan to the red gills: fighting mystery with a

honed blade

through the small bones: salt and scales on face and

hands:: the Greek God,

as well, found flesh unmysterious, but in anger and

disappointment:—

seagull cries, your music, are all about you: Apollonian

but hungrier: nature is hungry::

the brave fish dies the birds swoop for the insides in no

lovelier spirals.

Source: Poetry (March 2005).

Biography

Carol Frost was born in 1948 in Lowell, Massachusetts. She studied at the Sorbonne and earned degrees from the State University of Oneonta and Syracuse University. The author of numerous collections of poetry, including Honeycomb: Poems (2010), The Queen’s Desertion (2006), I Will Say Beauty (2003), Love and Scorn: New and Selected Poems (2000), and the chapbook The Salt Lesson (1976), she has received grants from the National . . .

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