This Poem was Submitted By: Thomas Edward Wright On Date: 2002-12-10 21:28:18 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!

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Where He’s Been Since Then

                         He’s casting again.              Fly Fishing is popular with him.              the travel, through gravel,              not so tough for him now that              he has a solid connection              constructed from here                into the Montana mountains -              and the bait issue is no longer              one   his Rod and Reel are of              the same high quality made-              in-the-usa material as the                little black bugs he picks for the trip -              Fly Fishing anytime you want -              he goes back there now, I can              tell when he’s there - we speak              from the same warm spot in the                Fisherman’s soul –              and then it’s time for a Shore Lunch – I wheel him up near the nursing station and he sends another long looping cast up over the nurse and the aide bringing dinner on the pale green plastic tray with the cracked corners the lightly salted chicken parmesan 1% milk wilted lettuce dry dinner roll that awesome carrot cake from his favorite cleaning lady that kind  mrs scheffer who thinks of him when she bakes     he watches the wind take the line  and the leader and the small fly guiding it to the lee side of the log  where the current slows and Big Rainbows sit lurking waiting for his bait              but I feel the mood shift as the creel drops              so I wheel him back out to the terrace              where the hummingbirds dance with the bees                       we go back to big cat hunting                        deep in his darkest jungle

Copyright © December 2002 Thomas Edward Wright


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