b'Pounded Yam and Rice Lucky/ Unlucky 13?In Japan for New Years they pound rice with huge wooden hammers . . . Years laterIn Africa yam with heavy wooden poles . . . Pa and Ma came to Iowa Cityin large carved out logs to visit with our newborn son, Jamie.rhythmically I caught a 13-pound walleyeBoth write praise songs of this act of fertilitybelow the dam in the Iowa River.the movements and sounds She filed for divorceinterlaced with giggles as soon as my parents left.Above Sun Valley in the Salmon River at Sunbeam Damwhere I dreamed of fishing for 32 years,I finally caught a salmon13 pounds (again)It swam 1,000 miles in and upland from the sea . . . 102 103'