Status Updates From Swim Home to the Vanished

"He feels a gurgle in his chest, finds it difficult to breathe, as if he were a fish who has been out of water too long. He doesn't belong here anymore, but he doesn't know where else he is supposed to be. Maybe that is how steelhead feel before they head out to sea. When anadromous fish return upriver to spawn, how do they know where to go?"

I’m not artsy enough for this