When the Turkeys Busted Loose
Me and Poach and the Window Wizard, walking this scrubby sheep pasture west of town. Sheep got buck teeth and clip the grass right down to the dirt. Canada thistle and prickly ash take over, tight clumps around the boulders the glaciers brought when they came and...
Preserving Turkey Memories
A delightfully different approach.
The Twenty Minute Gobbler
In a robe, no less.
Lucky Thirteen
My eyes glanced toward 14-year old Trent, frozen in a wide-eyed stare with the gun across his lap!
A Turkey Trifecta
A hunt of firsts for a lifelong turkey addict.
Kentuck Turkey Tango
Some 480 million years ago, plate tectonics waltzed the lapetus oceanic plate into what is today’s United States to form part of the supercontinent, Pangaea. For a hundred million years afterward, the Central Pangean Mountains lifted skyward, as high as the Alps....
A Thousand Rebel Yells
It was black dark and there was the disarming gush of the swollen, little stream, and I could only sense the rise of the earth above me. But I had done battle here before. I could feel it in my bones, as in the ghostly lines of Mary Fahl’s “Going...
The Poet Laureate of Turkey Hunting
An overview of Tom Kelly’s published work.
Mournful Echoes
“…before I could gather my feet under me I felt a boot on my neck.”