Lot of Fish in It

Someone drops the word

Pelagic into

Her composition

And publishes it.

Later, her text gets

Enthusiastic

Approbation, placed

At the very top

Of a list of texts

Deserving of praise.

Marine, maritime,

And oceanic

Could have been deployed

By the text instead,

But you must admit,

Pelagic rewebs

Some tattered canvas

Open to meanings

Its synonyms don’t

Attach. Pelagic.

There’s a sweep to it.

Those meanings themselves

That you make with it?

They’re waves. Pelagic.