The Fish Ticklers by Tina Edwards

The Fish Ticklers

On the edge of the riverbank

in the last of the summer sun

low amongst the meadow grass

in ragged shorts

outstretched hands stir beneath

shallows of muddied water

captor and captive entranced

Tina Edwards lives in the rural and coastal county of North Somerset. A keen walker and keeper of ducks she is a new poet recently published by Indigo Dreams Publishing in Reach Poetry and Flowers in the Machine a Science Project by Poetry Kit. She has also been published online in the USA by Poetry Super Highway for the 19th Annual Holocaust Remembrance Day Poetry Issue with her poem Deep in the Forest.