Guest Blogger: Michael Vorhis, author of ARCHANGEL suspense thriller, OPEN DISTANCE adventure thriller & more to come
With Apologies to Noel Harrison
shamelessly plagiarized by
Michael Vorhis
Like a spiral of a tangle, like a bird's nest of a knot,
Like a rusted iron snag – is it the maille of Lancelot...?
Like the algae-covered rocks the size of carnival balloons
Making wading boot designers look like second-rate buffoons…
Like the willows softly weeping over secrets old and sad,
And the world is but a fly box spilling half of what it had...
Like predicaments you find
In the fly reels of your mind.
Like a tailout of a channel with a channel of its own
To an undercut of shadows where the sun has never shone...
Like a songbird waiting quiet in an old recurring dream,
Or an eerie sound of laughter from the riffle of a stream...
Like a current sneaking stealthy past the dark enchanted ferns,
And your egg-fly’s like a world that’s sinking silent as it turns...
Like illusions that you find
In the fly reels of your mind.
Split shot jangles in your pocket, clippers dangle from your vest,
Season’s ending all too quickly...is it really for the best?
Anglers tromp along the shore, they leave their boot-prints on the bank...
Is that sound of distant rumbling just the coffee that you drank...?
Swaying high up in the branches from so many casts gone wrong
Hang abandoned flies and tippets, but to whom do they belong?
When you knew the day was over then you finally figured out
That the evening sky was fading to the colors of the...trout.
Like a line extending graceful as the fly begins its sweep…
Like a heron gliding over to a log beside the deep…
All the images unwind...
Through the memories you find…
In the fly reels of your mind.
6 comments
Michael Vorhis
Alan, there are actually lots of articles down through the years that do as you describe. J.Stockard is a class act in that regard. I’m sure as the months go by that will not change. Again thanks for the read, and good fishing.
Alan Kenny
… BTW,… It’s nice to see an article for a change that doesn’t push a product behind it. Not sure where it came from, but appreciate you bringing this little story to the (main)stream!
Michael Vorhis
Thanks Alan, Peter and Guy, I appreciate your having read it. Guy, that acoustic string-work sounds like a good idea!
- Mike Vorhis
Alan Kenny
A simple yet true poetic representation of the joys, hopes, fumbles, and serenity of the fly fisherman, revealing the ever-unchanging types of “memories ‘you’ (would) find” (or create), from the age of Lancelot’s private roaming of the forests to today’s attempts to sift serenity from “the fly reels of your mind” when hiding from a connected society. 5-Stars for the imagery!
Peter
Well done, Mike. Only one with experience can write to this.
Guy
Brilliant Mike! Makes me want put some acoustic guitar to it!