Struggling with strength near spent
on the up stream journey the salmon
pushes up one more riffle into
the pool above. Past the carcasses
of those whose struggles have ended
she struggles late in the pilgrimage to
keep faith with those to come and
those before who will or have
sought the stream to reproduce and die.
Purpose and meaning focused in the
struggle to keep faith carrying on
up the rapids until, spawned out or
spent, she drifts away …



Very much hawork in progress. Please comment