On Reality in Numbers

The fish are all shaped
By generations
In water and by
The nature of waves,
But that doesn’t mean

Fish share the same shape.
The waves can be cut
So many ways, so
Many ways while lives
Chase other concerns—

How to eat, how not
To be eaten, how
To find a mate, mate,
Ensure the offspring
Aren’t quickly eaten,

All those fish concerns
That shape their fish shapes
As well as do waves.
Still, all fish are shaped
By swimming through waves.