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  • Until the WristwatchIs Taken from the Wrist

    Five years before my grandpa died, an employee at theOregon Department of Fish and Wildlife crashed theirtanker truck of approximately 11,000 live Chinook salmoninto a power pole in Eugene, Oregon. When the truck rolled,and the shocked, slippery cargo flew into the Mackenzie RiverHighway—their permanently astonished expressions, for once,appropriate to the occasion—the interstate was sheathed in…