Fernando Pérez
Seattle
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Give This Shore a Name
What runs without feet
Is more than just river.
Father tied my first hook
To a word and let me grow
My own gills to breathe.
Give this shore a name,
Because it breathes too
Like salmon mapping their return
Speak a sympathetic burst
On the water’s surface.
Photo by: Timothy Aguero Photography