At this flow, the tailout is infinitely large – and maybe a tad bit too deep to comfortably wade. The water is running at six degrees this morning and a long pass through belly deep water would probably sap the life out of me – slowly and unknowingly. So, I decide to drop the pram [...]
Posts Tagged ‘winter’
Finding the Soul of a Mid-winter river (or: caught naked in the sunshine)
Posted in Steelhead Sanity, tagged spey, Steelhead Sanity, winter on January 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Places They Go
Posted in poems, tagged poems, winter on December 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Nobody heralded the arrival of winter this year.
Soon enough, days hang still
Here we are.
On the cusp, the trailing end of something.
Unannounced winter.
.
Leaden December sky,
Look west and see apricot sunshine
Spilling over everything.
Tell me your secrets here on the edge.
.
Tomorrow the children will gather here
The snow gone in the oak woodlands
In the valley, the first flower peeks [...]
