Bishop Quotes

I caught a tremendous fish

• The Fish

• At the Fishhouses

• Fishing

• Fish

He didn't fight.

He hadn't fought at all.

• The Fish

• At the Fishhouses

• First Death in Nova Scotia

• The Prodigal

Here and there

his brown skin hung in strips

like ancient wallpaper,

• The Fish

• In the Waiting Room

• Questions of Travel

• Filling Station

While his gills were breathing in

the terrible oxygen

• The Fish

• Fish

• Fishing

• At the Fishhouses

I looked into his eyes

which were far larger than mine

• The Fish

• The Prodigal

• Questions of Travel

• In the Waiting Room

I admired his sullen face,

the mechanism of his jaw,

• The Fish

• The Prodigal

• In the Waiting Room

• Questions of Travel

grim, wet, and weaponlike,

• The Fish

• At the Fishhouses

• Questions of Travel

• Filling Station

Like medals with their ribbons

frayed and wavering,

a five-haired beard of wisdom

trailing from his aching jaw.

• The Fish

• At the Fishhouses

• Questions of Travel

• Sestina

I stared and stared

and victory filled up

the little rented boat,

• The Fish

• Questions of Travel

• At the Fishhouses

• Filling Station

until everything

was rainbow, rainbow, rainbow!

And I let the fish go.

• The Fish

• At the Fishhouses

• Questions of Travel

• Sestina