Goldfish

Goldfish, 1911 - Henri Matisse

They peer at the

World around

Mouths agape at

Distorted refracted

Images and reflections

(Closing in)

Colour filtered through

Paradigmatic glass

Bending the outside

(Closer)

Confinement has never been

So liberating

They swim and they go

(Nowhere)

I see the world

As does a goldfish

(In a bowl)