Today’s NaPoWriMo.net prompt called for a poem about “a very large thing.” Yesterday, on Twitter, I saw an amazing video of a colossal sturgeon swimming in a Canadian lake. I took my title from the comments, and used the Canadian Encyclopedia entry on sturgeon to create this blackout poem.
Serpent Legend
Large
Primitive
Bony
class
in fresh rivers, lakes
some venture
into brackish water.
An ancient group,
fossils with long snout
toothless mouth
tail, long and slender.
They grow slowly
attain great size.
Female sturgeon
spawn
where the current is
rapid.
Feed
on the bottom
their protruding, sucking
lips.
Flesh —
delicious.
Fetch a high price.
Vulnerable. Declining.
See also Endangered Animals
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