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To Jessica…

POETIC INSPIRATION The haiku poems of Basho – their richness of color, temperature, movement and sound encompassed in so few words.
HOME SMELLS LIKE Warm roses from the garden.
A FAVORITE BUS MEMORY Taking the bus to a final job interview and receiving a heartfelt “good luck!” from the bus driver as I exited.

Salmon

Thick, sudden silver bumps the ceiling of the riverbed,
finding pathways behind slick blooming rocks –
swarthy scholars of the lowland loops, sliding across
the roughs of watershed and homestead.
Cartographers, from sea to rest,
they blush the lake’s blue in a turnabout west.

Salmon

Thick, sudden silver bumps the ceiling of the riverbed,
finding pathways behind slick blooming rocks –
swarthy scholars of the lowland loops, sliding across
the roughs of watershed and homestead.
Cartographers, from sea to rest,
they blush the lake’s blue in a turnabout west.

Jessica Frederick, 28

Seattle

 
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