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Deirdre Lockwood

Seattle

Gwaxčeł

Go for a stroll/walk there

Once a weir
trapped salmon where
this summer my daughter
picks salmonberries
the creek softens
iceforged drumlins
culvert-sprung
to where the people
of the big lake wintered
silent place

I try to hold it in crow memory
what was
what has settled
what has never been