Friday, March 23rd
America is so beautiful
Hot dogs and Coca-Cola
Drive through liquor stores
Soccer moms in minivans
To say nothing of the trout
and all the blondes
Wednesday, March 21st
Eating dinner alone
is a lot like being dead
Tuesday, March 20th
I for one
Would be easier to catch
than the fickle wild rainbow
Six-weight rod, load and cast
A green bikini
Fading tan lines
Untamed golden curls
Sunday, March 18th
I found a shallow
Reflecting pool deep in the pines
Brought it home in my creel
Now for the matter
Of how to hang it on my wall
Saturday, March 17th
After fishing with a friend
Watching the sun sink lower
Simultaneously compelled, we searched
For flat, weathered stones
To skip across the upside down sky
A preferable alternative
To having a conversation
Friday, March 16th
Fishing tip:
Trout enjoy pop music
Like Addison Rae
Tuesday, March 13th
Self help books are full of shit
Remove clothing
Enter River
Become River
Ripple, eddy, flow
Monday, March 12th
Lying on a pine needle bed
brown
Gazing at a pine needle sky
green
I could believe the whole world
Is pine needles
I find them in my socks
and underwear
Saturday, March 10th
Hard to catch fish
In chocolate milk
Flowing rapids through a washed out valley
Up switchbacks, across corn fields
And gravel pits, down abandoned fire
Roads. To save my rod tip
Pushing backward through the brush
I encountered a man as tall as a pine
Sitting on a burning stump
He asked me if I had heard of Hell
I told him I had not
And asked if the fishing
Was any better there
Friday, March 9th
Bountiful catch today
Weeds, fallen trees,
More weeds
Rock bass, an old watch
Time itself - puts up a good fight
'67 Camaro, piece by piece
Spent the rest of the day
Reassembling
Drove time to Dairy Queen
For cherry dipped cones
Thursday, March 7th
Bulletin board announcement
They're building a roundabout
At the intersection - confluence -
Of the St. Croix and Mississippi
A stop sign would have sufficed
Good luck trying to explain
A roundabout to a carp
Do Trout know how
To zipper merge?