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On the day the Rockies play the Cubs in Denver, cubs, sows and bores are playing the falls at Brooks. Halfway between lakes, a basalt dam pushed up by quake and eroded by ice, spills water six feet.  As though swimming upstream on hunger were not enough, fins become wings the fish ride to get back to the nest that spawned them. Stunned by the churn, do those falling short curse geology?

By waxing crescent
The bear genuflect and chant
In praise of glacier.

(Thanks to Naturalist Michael Fitz for information used in this entry and Ranger Jherek for the idea that the bears can thank geology for the great fishing fall.)