Thank you tng. I'm glad you enjoyed this, like I said on soundcloud I thought of you telling me (a long time ago now) that you would sometimes play these poems for your daughter when I recorded this. The Fish is quite long though, that's the only reason I haven't tried to memorize it, although I have bits and pieces now at least. I can never read this poem without thinking of my own poetry professor reading it out loud to us at the very beginning of my very first creative writing: poetry workshop. Also, I fake it, but I actually have the occasional awful pronunciation - gained from a childhood spent reading, not talking, so I knew all the ten-bit words but not how to say them - it's very possible I'm just saying the word incorrectly! I said "affidavit" incorrectly for weeks at my new job before anyone corrected me.
Well now I'm curious as to how you pronounced affidavit? I'll definitely play this poem for my daughter. Thanks for thinking of us!