The Teacher of the Fishermen

you can give a man a fish

or teach a man to fish

but you cannot teach

a man to teach

the fisherman who first 

shared the magic 

of the line 

lured the fish

another watched 

then tried  

taught herself 

tied the knot

set the hook

then she taught

her son to fish

a daughter watched

then tried

the brother learned to fish

the daughter became 

the teacher of the fishermen

who would learn 

for a lifetime