If you go down that way

The slick waters will hold you there.

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Time will become afternoon’s fast,

Before it curses the evening.

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There is nothing moving water cannot cure.

Slipping gently downhill.

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I just love swinging that fly through water I know.

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One fish took me five years.

The others came back-to-back.

On a warm October afternoon.

The next will be my life.

Daring to dream a death amongst cobbles

On a liquored blackberry evening,

When the wind disappeared.

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Fodder for caddis,

And winter’s green water to come.