Amazonian Delivery - Edit

[DonMar]

Amazonian Delivery    Clever tongue-in-cheek reference to the Amazon delivery service.


Tribes from times primordial
in jungles equatorial
dine well on piscatorial
endeavors gustatorial:

they poison creek or pond
underneath a forest frond,
then select from fish they stunned I associate stunning fish with the awful habit some people have of throwing dynamite into the water to stun the fish, making them easy to round up, so to speak. So I was surprised to see 'stunned' after the mention of poison, as it didn't seem to fit the picture and took me for a moment out of the narrative. Do the  tribespeople stun the fish by hitting them on the head with something if they're not already dead from the poison? 
for the choicest, most rotund.

The indigenous discovered
small fry swim away, recovered
for next year’s river-delivered
prime piranhas to be savored. The word 'savored' is a less satisfying rhyme for 'delivered'.

So sustainable a system
that we moderns short on wisdom
call unsporting and arrest ‘em
though our nets and hooks can’t best ‘em.

[pre verse]

A serious observation and (in the last stanza) inditement couched in light-hearted, well-crafted terms. The rhyming couplets are effective with regard to the intended tone, and the wraparound lines make for a pleasing, smooth flow. It was fun to read the stanzas aloud. Plenty of visual details as well to anchor the reader's interest, and nice use of alliteration throughout. A bonus as well is that the poem is also educational.