GR translation: sunfishing in the clouds

David Morris fqmorris at gmail.com
Tue May 8 07:46:45 CDT 2012


Wind would make a tethered baloon dart back and forth, as if swimming.
 And the Sunfish is a roundish strange-looking fish that the baloon
might resemble.

http://oceansunfish.org/

On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 1:05 AM, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
> P130.38-131.4   Tonight’s scratch choir was all male, epauletted
> shoulders visible under the wide necks of the white robes, and many
> faces nearly as white with the exhaustion of soaked and muddy fields,
> midwatches, cables strummed by the nervous balloons sunfishing in the
> clouds, tents whose lights inside shone nuclear at twilight, soullike,
> through the crosshatched walls, turning canvas to
> fine gauze, while the wind drummed there.
>
> What is "sunfishing"?  Fishing for the sun?  Or acting like sunfish?



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