King of the River
Published in <em>The Atlantic</em> in 1970
Illustrations by Miki Lowe
The poet Stanley Kunitz was reading magazine, he in 1982, when something caught his eye: an article about Pacific salmon. The creature’s life cycle is nothing short of dramatic. After being to return to its birthplace. Once it arrives, having fought against currents and traveled hundreds or thousands of miles, it spawns—and then dies.
