Requiem for a fish.....

She has seen more of Mumbai on her bicycle trips in one year than I have seen in all my years in the city.  It has also allowed her to pursue her love for photography to a large extent.  This is all possible if you have a great group of people of various ages and professions  who ride together with you .

This was from a recent cycling trip to Madh Island.  And clicking that fish was important.  Blessed by the rising sun.   To remember , and give  him a farewell , biped style.  Someone else was clicking her while she clicked the fish.  The photo credit for that goes to Vipin Arumugam, a member of her cycling group.  Thank you.

I  get to see such photos much, much later.  And then a poem happens....

  

He has bravely fought
with the nets and the waves,
along with his compatriots
in the first Madh Island Fish War,
and lies fatigued
on the beach,
and close to the end
of a nautical life.

She abandons her bicycle
and rushes
to click a portrait.

And he is immortalized,
amidst a garland of
ocean mist.

RIP ....

as they say
in a biped world.