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Daily Fly Fishing Poem #27: Fish or Pilgrim?
Daily Fly Fishing Poem #27: Fish or Pilgrim? A final surge and the fish slips through to our side, the portal ripples and closes behind him. Kneeling I hold him in my hand, and in […]
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Daily Fly Fishing Poem #25: Everything Has Its Season
Daily Fly Fishing Poem #25: Everything Has Its Season Born in late winter and populated with fingers of trees still naked and grasping for the dull tin pie plate that passes for the sun in […]
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Daily Fly Fishing Poem #24: Catch and Keep
Daily Fly Fishing Poem #24: Catch and Keep Crushed limestone gravel of The anglers’ lot. Done for the day and seventeen new fish sweep their tails behind my eyelids. A mink, an osprey, a great […]
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Daily Fly Fishing Poem #23: Beautiful Stream, No Fish
Daily Fly Fishing Poem #23: Beautiful Stream, No Fish There is no escaping the conclusion that all trout streams are liars– hustlers with flashing liquid grins whispering devious, sweet, gurgling fictions, and selling trinkets of […]
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Daily Fly Fishing Poem #21: Some Trout
Daily Fly Fishing Poem #21: Some Trout Some trout are like voodoo dolls, standing in for something else. Pierced and prodded, a means to some secret end. Or maybe like magic eight balls, shaken to […]
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Daily Fly Fishing Poem #20: The Difference Between Searching and Finding
Daily Fly Fishing Poem #20: The Difference Between Searching and Finding I turned the stream inside out like a pocket, searching for things that I thought were in there. But I only found a blue […]
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Daily Fly Fishing Poem #19: Getting Lost After a Day of Fishing
The 19th installment of September’s Daily Fly Fishing Poem experiment! This poem is based on a true story. Daily Fly Fishing Poem #19: Getting Lost After a Day of Fishing Bushwhacking as dark descended, we […]