October 8*

Posted on October 8, 2014 by othermindpress

silver salmon

skiff twirls in tide run
green candlefish jig
thirty feet deep off gooseberry point
wham! surge!
a play of perfect resistance,
wet net, flapping strong
seven pound silver salmon

*Copyright 2010 by Luther Allen. This poem appears in The View from Lummi Island.
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salmon image

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