Sam Schild


 

Engraulidae
 
filtering plankton gill rakers for aging seas deep en shallow nights. aggregate safer seem sonarly larger cept‘m cans, impending purse seine will filter close to surface life as cheap one bite proteins, easy to preserve food and oil sources, falling through food web base cracks, the attached fabrics by meticulous seamster made sea are drafty. collapsible populations must be tendered musn’t be too much tendered or many larger feedings won’t. each weighing less ounce and thousands encircled in tethering, the winch tightens the bottom hole closes to prevent sounding and schools clustered displacing water between slated to feed hundreds outside sea. this eating web precariously it seems its seams are these swimming clustered proteins. see, Halibut, Rockfish, Yellowtail, Sharks, Chinook, Salmon, Pelican, and Ferns making sea quiver from internal echoes. can they eat plankton? because populations re upted without tiny mouths open swimming to feed by forked tails collecting particanimals holding to system sheets. these seams of sea’s sweater protect its fragile skin, larger can’t eat signs seines dragging too many to fish sauce, getting colder with sweater holes, the fabric floats away as binders bound in seines end of balance.


 
Sam Schild is a poet and social activist who currently resides near Chicago, Illinois. Recent work appears or is forthcoming in EOAGH, Upstairs At Duroc, Unlikely 2.0, BlazeVOX, Otoliths, Alice Blue, There, Pinstripe Fedora, Anything Anymore Anywhere, Moria, and Poets for Living Waters. As of August 1st he will be a creative writing master's student and teaching assistant at Temple University.