Where is Yakutat?
Tucked into the forelands, nestled between Sitka Spruce,
Raven and Eagle share with Glacier Bear and Black-tailed
Deer.
Without fog, eighteen thousand vertical feet of relief is
revealed
On the eve of sunrise, cast in pink, purple, and fiery red-orange
Begets the Coho in the last days of life upon the pebbles
Of the Sitak and the Ahrnklin Rivers, fighting currents.
I ask him What is
there to do for fun in Yakutat? Drink,
he
Casually admits, and I remember, that’s the same thing we do
For fun in every other hamlet called home, as we’re all left
Alone strumming the chords of our own panoramic hinterland.
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