#todayspoem
from Some eel thoughts by Michael Malay
Their voyage thus describes a kind of sinewave, a diurnal dipping followed by a nocturnal surfacing: the arc of their homecoming.
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They are not returning for themselves but for the future, which makes itself felt as an itch in their bellies.
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Today, there are more than one million man-made obstructions in rivers and streams across Europe.
The contradiction couldn’t be greater. On one hand, the obduracy of concrete and the flushness of steel, and on the other hand, this sinuous rope of changing life. An eel
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Everywhere, though, it is being met by borders and walls, borders and walls.
I am always being born, it says, and now – can you hear it? – watch me as I disappear.