Susan Kay Anderson: Humpies ("our time so short")

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Pink Salmon ["humpies'] stacked in a Ketchikan, Alaska creek: photo by Keith Willits, 25 August 2010

The Ur delusion --
our time so short
what to do
but give way
to give it away
invisible potlatch
glimpsed
during the drive-by
humpies struggling
in the shallows
just past the deep end.

Susan Kay Anderson: Humpies ("our time so short"), 10 September 2012

Pink Salmon ["Humpy"], spawning in rapid-moving stream, Greenwater River, Washington: photo by Barry Maas, 13 September 2007



Three Pink Salmon ["Humpies"], fighting for position, Sultan, Washington: photo by Don Barnett, 19 October 2007

Pink Salmon ["Humpies"], during the salmon run, Sitka, Alaska: photo by Brandon, 6 August 2005

Dead female humpy (Pink Salmon), Ketchikan, Alaska: photo by chartan, 15 August 2012

Machinireflect [Can you spot the humpies?], Ketchikan, Alaska: photo by chartan, 15 August 2012.

This provoked by and posted in honour of our esteemed resident soul-angler Hazen Robert Walker: "The ur-delusion: /we can make this work, / this civilization thing." -- 10 September 2012