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Stephen Bernstein's avatar

Amen, and will just keep thinking (and kidding myself) that July will be here “soon” here on the east coast for the striper run!

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Rich Moore's avatar

Would love to join you Stevie!!!

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Dusty durston's avatar

May your lines be tight in the year ahead😉

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Rich Moore's avatar

And yours too, Dusty!!! We need to share a stream some day!!!

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Ruth's avatar

Speaking as a Pike, I agree completely!!😂😂

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Rich Moore's avatar

Clever girl!!!

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Malcolm J McKinney's avatar

The salt in my blood

Talks to me in soft

Rhythmic syllables

Reminding me pulse on pulse

Of the long low low dream

(Rememberings of) sunning in the shallows

With flashes of silver

Deflecting the slow descent

Of sunlight

Settling below the warm

Wash of shorebound waves

(That far away memory

Stored in my cells)

Of diving in the deeps

Beyond coral crowns

Beyond the shelf

Guarding the coastline

That far eventual

Frontier

We crossed with tentative flips

Eons later

Where

We learned

Gasping

To catch

A breath

Out of water.

Malcolm McKinney 2023

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Denise Orwin's avatar

Thanks for this Rich! Love the poem! And it made me look up the new book from Lulu Miller which looks interesting. I like radiolab.

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Rich Moore's avatar

So glad you like it Denise! You'll love the book, though my new deeper knowledge of eugenics' history in our country depresses me!

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Meg Costello's avatar

A good one for sure. 👏🏻

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David Donoghue's avatar

Ha this is great, I am impressed with how you incorporated all the lingo with the jargon. 😅 I believe the fish do exist, you convinced me! ... And i've eaten a few

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Rich Moore's avatar

Hey David. Don't be overly impressed. My insight came from one strong source -- Lulu Miller's book Why Fish Don't Exist! It's a must read.

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Medea Isphording Bern's avatar

You bring the fish as its own being to life, Rich! The book is fascinating, though :)

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