(a `tidied up` re-post)

 

In the aftermath of war
And plenitude
Of remnant explosives
Gerasimos
Had `come into possession` 
of several
Hand grenades.

 

And, desiring
to eat 
Of more fish
Than a mere net afforded,
Had chanced his arm
At the concussing method
Of piscatorial capture.

 

Something
(A faulty safety pin perhaps?)
Failed.

 

And - 
On that occasion -
Instead of Gerasimos
Eating of the fish,
The fish
(To borrow a biblicicsm)
Did eat of Gerasimos.

 

Today
A slash
Of the right hand
Across the left forearm
Will point him out
At any time
In little Gaios.