Ask anyone who knows
the stars and they’ll tell
you the two of us are
not well-matched. 

Each of us should 
have had a virgo
or a taurus, earth
signs to keep us
grounded.

How did we two fish
swim against the
celestial tides
to each other?

Truth be told
you don’t fit
the pisces bill
as well as I do—
I’m mostly parades
and you’re mostly
rain. 

But I like the rain,
without it, nothing
would grow and
growing together
is the joyous work
of marriage.

Astrologists may
know the stars
but they don’t 
know us.

-From one fish to another, with love