Thomas Winfield Marie Nuhfer

Thomas Winfield Marie Nuhfer

Ode to Sturgeon

Two hundred aquatic light years deep in an act of negative phototaxis flat darkness seeks the sturgeon pure sense stirs sediment suction of burgeoning eons under the glacial lake spurned into turbidity stunned and hunted churned into steam journeys the sturgeon gentle and pelagic hero in the sludge bed woebegone timekeeper attacks the goby with surgical precision turning slowly on an axis sleeping cold and gray and old and urgent