A Dream of Fish Leather

A world beneath the waves where colours dance and play.
Carp, bream, pufferfish weaving new stories every day.
Rising from the depths of the coral reef
to the fishermen they give their lives,
skins packed in buckets in the Tokyo market
gutted by the master's sharp blade.

Now a young man with a dream of fish leather
creates a magical transformation in his washing machine;
Fish skin leather wallets the colors of the sea.
There is a genius in the Japanese race
so plain to see
Their quiet, understated elegance,
I beam with pleasure at seeing what is made.