All morning I have cast my line
Fishing from this rock, and landed
Cinderella's slipper,
Half a rainbow,
A map of Shangri La,
The shadow of the invisible man,
Tolstoy's death rattle,
A crater from the dark side of the moon,
Casanova's foreskin,
Four digits from the formula for love,
The final chapters of Edwin Drood,
A tusk from the elephants' graveyard,
Jack the Ripper's relationship with his mum,
The lyrics to the nightingale's song,
The Unknown Soldier's dogtag,
The smoke without fire,
Cleopatra's recurring dream
And the flutter of an angel's wing.
Just imagine what I might have caught
If I had used a hook.

Limerick-born Tim Cunningham has had four books of poetry published, the most recent being Kyrie and Siege (Revival Press). He was awarded a Patrick and Katherine Kavanagh Fellowship in December 2012.