for calque, while at a fish ladder

(May 5, 2006)

this is the first of a million kisses

herring are ready the moon high and water cold

mating

i don't know what they are

thinking

pooling under the churning water circling

rubbing against one another

do they remember?

i would like to

return to that place that i have not been before

with you

where we don't know each other