The Fish-Bishop

Question 1

I caught

Answer 1

I caught a tremendous fish/and held him beside the boat

Question 2

with all their

Answer 2

with all their five big hooks/grown firmly in his mouth

Question 3

a five-haired

Answer 3

a five-haired beard of wisdom/trailing from his aching jaw

Question 4

until everything

Answer 4

until everything/was rainbow,rainbow!/And I let the fish go

Question 5

brown

Answer 5

brown skin hung in strips/like ancient wallpaper

Question 6

its pattern

Answer 6

its pattern of darker brown

Question 7

shapes

Answer 7

shapes like full-blown roses

Question 8

battered

Answer 8

battered and venerable and homely