Melinda J. Irvine

Buying Fish

Buying fish from the Estancia wet market.

27 June 2017

1 minute

dodging rain tubs
filled with last night
my morning begins

along mud splatters
and shouts of ‘Ma’am!
“You buy? Ma’am, you buy!”

my green rubber flip-flops
step around two tiny girls
in freshly checked uniforms

and bits of sun shine
where there once was roof
the local fish market is alive

as I find the two ladies who
sold me fishes last week
smiling and pressing

a little extra into
the bag, saying
Suki (my special customer)

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