Big fish

BIG FISH

Piece description from the artist

Trophy
. . . after a painting by Kathleen A. Fox

big fish, big sky, big guy
it's like Pamplona Port Clyde ocean
you know who's going to win in the end
still, he put up a good fight

where else was mirrored in your shades,
reflecting other kills? Maui, Cabo, somewhere
fuzzy after three nights in Miami, somewhere
outside Kabul
too bad there was no fishing in Iraq

there was even fishing on the honeymoon
it all started on a Maine lake
he still has the baseball cap
they used to call him Fish Lips
he almost drowned at 17

out there, out on the water, out on the blue
deep breast of the sea, out where the clouds
shine the water the very color of light, changing
light, changing so fast you can never
capture it, can't describe it, can't
even remember it right — everything
else goes away

but then, sudden as a shot,
the bait works, then the sinking the hook into her,
then the last breath, the last rise and fall
gills gaping and grasping.

good eating tonight
going out again
tomorrow.
Sherry Barker Abaldo

Other works by Kathleen Fox

About Kathleen Fox

Port Clyde, ME

Kathleen A. Fox PhD lives and paints primarily in and around Tenants Harbor and Port Clyde, Maine. Her whimsical style beautifully captures the freedom and quirkiness of Maine.
Fox studied art and journalism at Cornell University and received a PhD in Social Welfare at the Rockefeller College, SUNY Albany, in 1996. A life-long artist, she has won numerous awards for her watercolors, including the Utrecht Award at the New England Watercolor Society Bi-Annual International Show in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
Each year since 2007, Fox has created the Coastal Maine Calendar, which documents working lobster boats, their captains and port-of-call. She has also written and illustrated four award-winning children’s books.
Her paintings were most recently shown at the Archipelago Gallery of the Island Institute in Rockland, the Boothbay Regional Art Foundation in Boothbay Harbor, and the Roux-Cyr Gallery in Portland, Maine.
Fox maintains a studio on Blackberry Hill Road, Tenants Harbor and in Port Clyde, Maine.

See Kathleen's portfolio here
office

Learn more about the benefits of our service

An Art Advisor will get in touch with you today to schedule a free consultation to discuss your artwork needs.

Get Started