Tain Leonard-Peck
River song echoing
down icy banks
seawater shivers
a chorus of return, ancestral
the call to creche.
Churning, relentless
urge to spawn
streams turn silver
in a deluge of desperate scales.
Ascend a waterfall
dodge Kodiak claws
fisher’s lures
lay in wait
thread the gauntlet before
the castle is reached
promised beds
of stones and silt.
A new beginning
and an imminent end
aquatic Ouroboros.