2022, Ohio River Valley Literature, poetry, winter

no. 71

Old Son! That hooked lunar
it never shows up in modern TV fairy tales
just a giant orb, floods and tidal shifts
the salmon, boyo, the salmon
swimming in oppositional currents
and here in the shade
where our renewal springs from
we trade spit and slurs with ancient monsters
crying at the sight of an empty-bellied moon

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