Four Poems

resolutions of that fight

eliminated traps, fish wheels               sportsmen                         have made the greatest gains fish has become a form                                   a reattachment to nature                                             symbols of the good life itself places moot by elimination                              valued and ancient possessions              where human work had defined a way of life                                        now the distorted and divisive fish                                                       of Celilo Falls when the returning runs passed                              there was public controversy the cost                           new dams                                                     additional dam additional dams                                   three dams                  before the dams                                                               nine dams suspended lights result that was mad. Like many kind                          sane from the inside.               Emerson’s railway back to nature               was a journey that most Americans                                         took new                      a dream of liberation the hope of transformation through                                          collective self-deceptions                        dreams as transferred                                                                 fusion original passion is                                              the brightness of the day the ironies and connections                       Science is at once the supposed authority                 sought for justifying                                                               Nothing so crass            that funders prefer their own interests                                       that will probably decide the fate                      the actual river to a virtual river electronic fish swim past                                                     the electronic river                       One is FLUSH

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