R. MICHELSON GALLERIES

Fine Art Gallery, Art Restoration, & Picture Framing

Smooth Puffer

24.5×24 in

Archival Inkjet Print

2017

$1,750/set unframed

Smooth Puffer by Naila Moreira

Instead of spines, you have stars.
I cannot stay away
from the cosmos, when I look at you.

Inflated, gravid,
your throat in death
pooches out, as though about to speak

or sing, a diaphragm
filled to tell the world who you are.
Do not eat me, you proclaim,

do not take me; I’ll be your death too.
Poison sparkles silk-smooth skin,
trickster fish, tempting the fisherman.

On Jersey shore
in 2016, you multiplied, blithe
from southern waters.

I threw it back, reported the angler.
Sometimes, rarely,
we learn what not to keep.

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for pricing or more information:
Phone: 413.586.3964
Email: RM@RMichelson.com

132 Main Street
Northampton MA 01060

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