Pin Bones: Poems

What does it mean to care for something you cannot save?

In the wake of personal loss and disrupted dreams, and amid the global uncertainty of the COVID-19 pandemic, a poet arrives at a small land-based fish farm. There, she learns to do everything: spawning fish, picking eggs, feeding and tending fry, alevins, finger-length trout, Arctic char, and full-grown fish; cleaning tanks and raceways; harvesting what she has helped raise.

As the seasons turn, the farm reshapes the poet’s sense of tim...