"Fish" - like Poem, for Prompt

I Remember

Ah! I remember!

     I remember a river

          Tossing here, curling there

               Twisting like walrus' whiskers

                    Ah! I remember!

               I remember a shiver;

          The shiver that ran up my spine

     The shiver of seeing the wonder

Instead of only the pictures

Ah! I remember!

     I remember a place

          The place I met the wallaby

               Singing like a wind through the vines

                    His name was Rutherford Kingsley

                         And his hair was matted and frayed

                    And, oh, how dismayed and wide-eyed

               Was he, when had he drunk of my wines

          Ah! I remember!

     I remember a face

The face of Mme C.

The beaver

Sweet face

     She spoke like a squirel

          In a chittering whirl

                   Like hummingbirds fast in a race

                            Ah! I do so remember in fondness

                                             My time spend on that river

                                                        My mind is taut like a bowstring

                                                                       But, alas! I've emptied my quiver!

--LitheWalrus