CATCH

CATCH

I do suppose
when it came to evolution

I went with the shape
(inside and out)
I could manage
to articulate

all those insistent genes
demanding a choice
be forced upon me
from
first intake of breath

ordering me
to cast my line
out into the darkness
hoping
       to get
     the most savage
of bites

happy to
have left something more
substantial than a
mere ripple

should i return as a failure
massive evidence of a bite
but no
     talk of a catch