Thursday, 16 February 2023

The Sturgeon

Must we really now contemplate
the passing of sturgeon to char or skate?

The sturgeon effectuates caviar,
preferable to swill-supped salmon by far

but a dying breed, its rivers dammed,
a future less than certain. Drammed

right down to the cold, hard marble,
I hear her voice in the ether warble

a melancholy reel of reason sounder
than the garbled nonsense of the southern flounder;

The sturgeon whiskered and wise,
the flounder flatly lies. 


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