Dead Salmon Dialectics #13
just as nutrients refer although to various marine-derived commons
rain salmon image affects of as if it were the first mistakes of gumboot science
whereby an ecosystem-derived from conforms with to consumer needs
in confusion with a clear demarcation of which as the limit of poetry’s surprise
leaving typical salmon postcardisms to reside in subsequent surveys of be
which spawn where to degrade beauty’s otherwise veneer trump value
even as ministry reports rupture whatever onto paper as poetry-deep lakes
streams and forests reconfirm has as the ineffable failure of a concrete by
thus incorporating because into rain salmon tissue as the legal form of unless
which recognizes in between as two species-specific of-type pathways
accelerating either-or up the food chain unless against directs consumption
and dilutes should with among for both terrestrial and freshwater limits
upon all sedentary harvests of must have while an abundance of sea-run as if
coincides with an even more-predictable aversion to whatev as it decomposes
along a well-stratified leaching below with to signify the final excretion of until
as it renders all remaining carcasses with such that scattered across inasmuchas
in contrast to while as nowadays we say “please excuse me” just as wherein
the old days except would validate have with a mere cuff to the poet’s head
Dead Salmon Dialectics #19
tropes
of rain salmon
recycling
intent
on the energetic that is
detached between the lines
of aesthetic preoccupations
the rain salmon is not the text
not even one of millions
of ancient anadromous words
but a living flutter/shudder
whorled under
the gravel bed
of natal ephemera
like the phloem
she is concerned
with the nitrogen contents
of these truth-standing poetries
more than the so-called music
that registers
as
the intertext
passes through
editorial process
Dead Salmon Dialectics #23
although they prefer the brains
of spawned-out females
when migratory returns shortage
the actions of salmon bears
enunciate more than the particulars
of subsystem theories of ‘context’
perforating the diverse
stream-keen torque
the inconsistent persistent
heterogeneous rhythm-to-plot
schema of rough-spent migrants
salmon bears claw-up unabridged drafts
consume whole ragged copies
yet always expurgating
the text(e)s of the male
littering the forest
with his shredded
shrivelled prolix