Canal

Busy sunday banks
earphoned joggers
families of cyclists,
near, just below the surface,
a transparent medium
the clarities amazing
uncurling green
movements timed
with rippled scales,
grasses, mud,
four bloated carp
twist, disperse, inelegant, obese,
re-cluster, sheltering
behind the biggest,
look upstream
through the shopping trolly,
for food.