The Skookumchuck Poems : Skookumchuck Press : 9780979649592 : 10 Oct 2017 : THE SKOOKUMCHUCK POEMS, is a collection of 30 poems written over a fifty-four year period. The poems spring from the sounds, gulfs, straits, channels, passages, canals, great-bends, reaches, passes, narrows, rapids, harbors, inlets, bays, bights, coves, landings, banks, holes, deeps, boundary-be aches, lagoons, tidal creeks, sandbars, tideflats, mudflats, deltas, spits, distributaries, logjams, looped meanders, braidworks, backsloughs, tributary rivers, waterfalls, creeks, swamps, marshes, fens, salt-prairies, guzzles, seabluffs, terraces, bald and ledges, peninsulas, heads, points, cliffs, rocks, reef islands and tombolos of the Salish Sea estuary. "Each landscape's fractal design code is part of the genes of a place...each regional landscape creates its own words and language...on the beach the pungent smell of the driftlogs, dried seaweed, crusty sand, and flinty shells on the salt breeze wrap the clouds