He said christmas eve
and I heard only capricorn
a well fitted friend to my son, the pisces
full of fluid energy, not always able to stand ground and rest in himself.
Unlike his father of the same sign
this not-blood companion would offer this fish a place to land not in strife or stagnation
but a challenge of something outside himself
if he should choose to take some of the reality held out in the hand of a friend
and swirl it well into the pond of his own wise, and deep, and yet to be stilled, waters.