by Alex Steelsmith

“[A]fter the world’s largest dam removal project… the [Klamath] river is now free flowing…
The dams were built between 1918 and 1962 to provide hydropower, and immediately blocked salmon
from migrating… [T]ens of thousands of salmon died… [But when the dam was removed, they] came back
faster than scientists expected… ‘[W]ithin a month, 6,000 salmon were detected swimming upstream.’”
—Fast Company

Merrily, merrily,
myriad salmonids
swim through the waterway,
no longer crammed

into a reservoir
hydroelectrically
harnessing power where
once they were damned.