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Celebrating salmon

Posted on June 4, 2023 by othermindpress

Please join editor Rena Priest, Empty Bowl Press, and Luther Allen, as well as other contributors, for a celebratory reading of poems from I Sing the Salmon Home, a new anthology published by Empty Bowl. The event, on Sunday, June … Continue reading →

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October 8*

Posted on October 8, 2014 by othermindpress

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 … Continue reading →

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March 27*

Posted on March 27, 2014 by othermindpress

grilled the last fish in the freezer august sockeye from legoe bay rose pink flesh full of oil — fuel for the long journey never made i carry the carcass down return it to the sea                     where it will travel … Continue reading →

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September 23*

Posted on September 23, 2013 by othermindpress

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

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March 27*

Posted on March 27, 2013 by othermindpress

grilled the last fish in the freezer august sockeye from legoe bay rose pink flesh full of oil — fuel for the long journey never made i carry the carcass down return it to the sea               where it will travel … Continue reading →

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January 30*

Posted on January 30, 2013 by othermindpress

every morning now watching salmon seekers ply the wet of dawn           downriggers                     —the cold lead ball,                     cable slicing through           mostly emptiness *Copyright 2010 by Luther Allen. This poem appears in The View from Lummi Island.

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September 11*

Posted on September 11, 2012 by othermindpress

fraser river pinks migrating along the island, teeming upshore, downshore, at any instant a dozen or more fish leaping into our world in gathering darkness i whip my rod toward the flurry hook up on every cast, beach five writhing … Continue reading →

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August 18*

Posted on August 18, 2011 by othermindpress

jumpers flee gravity in joyful leaps exuberant silver shudder comes through surface into something that must feel like nothingness to knock off sea lice to escape a seal to get bearing perhaps just to take a look *Copyright 2010 by … Continue reading →

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April 7*

Posted on April 7, 2011 by othermindpress

moon night beach mirrorflat water only the gentlest lap of wave reflection of orcas across the water: shimmering, stately leaping, chattering chasing the hapless ghosts of salmon past *Copyright 2010 by Luther Allen. This poem appears in The View from … Continue reading →

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