GR translation: sunfishing in the clouds

David Morris fqmorris at gmail.com
Thu May 10 14:59:23 CDT 2012


Right, but not made until the 50's.

On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 1:53 PM, Joe Allonby <joeallonby at gmail.com> wrote:
> A sunfish is also a small recreational sailboat.
>
>
> On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 8:46 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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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