Salmon Mind
There are dark shadows in the water
How do I explain?
These things come and they go
fate and chance unfold in circumstance
All around lies the the world
Too large to grasp (in one mouth)
I thread its flows like a salmon
Blind to meaning I run the shoals
leap the races between the rocks
Lurk in deep pools
Chance and fate wait their turn
I remember the pull of mysterious gravity
beyond my understanding
where I cannot move myself
but only feel the elements
commingled caress my flanks
I leap into the rainbow
and behold its Glory
Salmon Mind
Copyright 12/04/98 Unpublished Works William M. Shannon