Notes from an Aquarium

Lise Colas
2 min readJun 24, 2023

Three poems

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Sea Life (a vignette)

Her delphic gaze holds sway,
contemplating
some unknown folly
submerged inside
a fathomless trompe l’oeil.

Temple lost — she’s now merely
a prop for aquatic hoi polloi.

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Lise Colas

writes poetry and short fiction as well as quirky unreliable memoir and lives on the south coast of England.