Poet Alice Derry On Watching Salmon

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Credit Flickr Photo/Dan Hershman

Chinook Salmon in the fall at Flaming Geyser State Park.

Watching salmon churn upstream to spawn is a quintessentially Northwest scene. But it’s not a terribly intimate one. Port Angeles poet Alice Derry finds the connection between salmon running and a longtime couple accepting the losses they’ve suffered together in her poem, “Finding the Poem.” KUOW’s Elizabeth Austen guides us through the piece.

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