Not This Time

An ekphrastic poem based onAkira Kusaka's painting "Angling the Night"

Not This Time
Ekphrastic poem after “Angling the Night” by Akira Kusaka

It could be the end
the sky is falling
I dress in my best suit
dust my fine bowler hat
place a chair in the rowboat
just so
and fish for fallen beauty
hook the moon before it sinks
then her companions    the stars 
No catch and release
not this time
I must save the sky 
from drowning