A brief and artistic depiction of the very moment a young child falls in love with fishing.
A faint zephyr curled the tip of her hair. Shoulder length. The lapping of edge water murmuring. Inveigling liquid whispers heralding dusk – some primal tongue understood by the ancients – as myriad golden shines danced atop aquatic undulations. Leaves began singing the dirge of the descending day. Framed in Spanish moss, a vermillion skyline yawning. Harbinger soon some phase of moon, amphibious crooning abounds. A hand-sized perch in her fist.
Aeonian nature’s colloquy. Conference of wind and fire and rain and earth knowing no end. A mere breath a contribution. Even as one life wiggles away, she sees. Matrimony of time and space – horizon ever-bound – in Lasting Overtures Vastly Evolving.
She holds the handle, blank to the sky, guides giving line ascent. Tip. Fall — with angular ease.
Her eyes gaze up to me. Curious, dilated, free. A parting of the lips, a palm on the hips:
“Dahhy, juss whon mohr casss—Pwease?”
Spanning lighthearted humor to contemplative moments on fly fishing, bass fishing, saltwater fishing, and more from writers like Ernest Hemingway, Ed Zern, Ted Hughes, Cervantes, Thomas McGuane, and scores more, this handsome collection the essence of the sport of angling. It’s the perfect gift for every fisherman. Shop Now
