Homeward Bound
The salmon run—
Hoped for slippery salmon
Silver, Chinook, pink,
pinook
Swift to escape net and
hook…
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Slick swift silver salmon streak
Upstream from Lake
Michigan
They find their bed in
the river
Where they were new born
with yolk sacks bulging
their bellies.
Now mature they leap and
flash
Colors of auroras high
above them
They leap and splash
past hooks and nets and
whirling blades
of boat motors…
homeward bound salmon
to spend it all
their eggs and milt.
--Barbara Spring
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