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etude - the return
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Two centuries ago almost every stream running into Lake Ontario had a salmon run -- Atlantic Salmon. Deforestation, overfishing and pollution wiped them out before the beginnig of the last century.

Today's salmon, part of an extensive put and take fishery, are all Pacific spieces...


Ominous dorsal fins
reveal leg long,
square tailed
invaders in the shallows.
Bronze torpedos
racing up the riffles:
salmon
in the
Oshawa...

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 Reviews of "etude - the return"
Reviewed by Fr. Kurt Messick
Reviewed on September 23, 2003
very good

Reviewed by Jaclynn Huntington (Reader)
Reviewed on September 21, 2003
Wonderful visual. Well done!

~Jackie~

Reviewed by Vesna Perkovic (Reader)
Reviewed on September 19, 2003
..indeed man has left his mark..not a pretty one at all...alas

Excellent write..ty for reminding me that we shoulsd all DO our part as regards the eco system

Vesna

Reviewed on September 19, 2003
Beautiful lines, beautiful imaginations.

Reviewed by Tinka Boukes
Reviewed on September 18, 2003
Nice write John!!

Love Tinka

Reviewed on September 18, 2003
This was so lovely, so very sad that they are gone..

Reindeer


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