Top Hook, Bottom Hook

 

                               Top Hook, Bottom Hook

 

 

Bayside, Brighton, retired old salt departs home,

encouraged by his wife, content to relax alone,

in putt-putt, searching, drifts Port Phillip Bay

wistfully, dreams, for catch of the day.

 

Top, bottom, hooks, persistent optimist,

tempts snapper, flathead, whiting, succulent fish,

but which will take bait, be first to fail,

“Strike me lucky”, two whiting, complete tale!

 

 

Alan Pinkus                                                       alpinkuspoetry.blogspot.com