What the Fish Spell

They will not wait.
They will not happen.
They happen.
They have happened.

Will they happen?
If they are at all
They will have happened—

The most solid existence
Anyone’s accorded
Within this happened.

Everything you can be
Or be aware of is among
The things that happened.

Linny’s tragic, scrawny story
Doesn’t yet exist— hasn’t
Happened yet, then, has it?

Hasn’t had been, hasn’t been yet,
Has it? Linny’s story—how soon
Can it have happened?

Can it have happened?
Wait—did the girl who crouched
Here happen?