Sashimi

Watching the hand's transaction
at the deal table, it is hard to tell:

does the knife swipe through mackerel
clean as a credit card,

or is it the silver fish itself
that swipes the blade?

His raw hands cut the deck.
The flesh is dealt.

- Robin Robertson, 'Itamai-San'

Poetry and raw fish. What more can one ask for?

Categories: Poetry