When the river’s splash could be my tail
when the sliver of underwater silver catches your gaze
when you return to your birthplace and ponder family lines
remember mine
how the dams stopped us from spawning
how humans feed their greed
how we could have lived another 100 million years
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Randy Shinn holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Goddard College. His work has appeared online, in a few journals, in Ocho magazine, within many rejection letters, and in the Anchorage Art Museum. Randy spends most of his time in the PNW and Alaska.
