I agree, very nice poem. I like the dimensions of the salmon (!). And as someone who was "local" for many years, because the Sedro Woolley post office serves much of Skagit County east of Mt. Vernon and serves a big chunk of Whatcom County (at the south end of Lake Whatcom) and along Hwy 9 possibly as far north as Acme), I, like many neighbors, would talk in casual conversation about going down to Sedro, dropping the Woolley. (Take a breath, and don't try to diagram that sentence).

I'll have to look through Dad's papers to see if he ever did anything with that poem. It sure looks like something he would have fiddled with tune-wise. He did write songs about the area, including the "Blue Canyon Mining Disaster." And there's one about the little ferry that used to run up and down the lake--I don't remember the name of that one right off of the top of my head.

Maggie