Slippery

Slippery - meaning Summary

Infant as Playful Fish

A brief, affectionate vignette that compares a six-month-old baby to a fish. The infant, just bathed, wriggles in the caregivers’ hands and earns the playful nickname Slippery. The poem captures the tactile immediacy of holding a small, lively child and a family’s spontaneous tenderness. It compresses a single domestic moment into a compact observation of motion, care, and informal naming.