August 2021

spawning salmon

Yesterday’s salmon

Yesterday’s salmon Just beneath the river’s shimmering skin, sleek, scarred in shallow waters they lunge upstream, up ladders, between rocks.   A twist, a splash, an arc to drop dead still before another surge. An ode to salmon’s final journey.   A pause, a gathering strength against gravity’s downward racing, tumbling current against time in …

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