[notes – trying to convey the notion that salmon and steelhead in the Pacific have largely evolved alongside the earth’s most dynamic landscapes – the Pacific Rim – this country beaten, shaken and falling apart is home to these great fish – I just wanted to get some preliminary thoughts down and work through it for awhile – much better reading than a journal article!]
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All along the coast
Great mountains rise
Up from Oceans
Falling from volcanoes
Rainier, Hood, Shasta
Just a few
And all those little creeks
Collecting water from the ocean
Pushing mountains back to the sea
Returned to their birthplace
Atop mountains carved by glaciers
Covered in lava
Shaken by earthquakes
Landslides, floods and droughts
Such a brittle country
Who would ever find a home
Here?
That little creek,
Here today
Going away with the mountain
Some great geologic clock
Returning all to the sea
Then upheaved, scraped and shaken again
And again from before our time
To well past our place
Who would ever be here?
Shaken Rain 