Lost in the shine of a moment's chase
from the flash of a minnow that rounds
a stone.
Contact sudden pain--caught!--
--that taste of metal-not-minnow;
--that hard final set of things just
there, jerked in, unspitable;
--that moment on a point
like a lump sum shiner
you are unable to swallow.
You jerk--
dive, running down deep--
jump up as to God--
shake to be loose
from the shine of a moment
and not die right there
by an act of living,
--brave and desperate
to eternally chase
the shinning minnow.