JOURNAL

Dead Fish Dreams

Interpretation?

Samantha Lazar
3 min readAug 14, 2020

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Photo by Hunter Trahan on Unsplash

I had the dream again.

I’m somewhere in charge of the aquariums, and the fish don’t make it. They are too large for the tank. There are too many of them. I try to tell someone (the supervisor?) as cichlids give up and float, half-decayed already, to the top of the tank.

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Samantha Lazar

Poetry, fiction, and essays in celebration of being a Mom, Wife, Educator, Writer, & Lover of Life.