Daily Fly Fishing Poem #6: Watching Trout in the Grass
Trout in the Grass by Anthony Naples Poem #6: Watching Trout in the Grass I don’t recall the month, though it was winter I’m sure of that. A dusting of snow on the stubbled, browning fields, but the...
View ArticleDaily Fly Fishing Poem #7: Small Mountain Stream
Small Stream by Anthony Naples Poem #7: Small Mountain Stream Rhododendron grows Hanging low over the stream Miles to the best fish I wade cold water, and stones Find their way into my boots I thought...
View ArticleDaily Fly Fishing Poem #8: Fishing with Raven on the Taylor River
Raven by Anthony Naples I was a little worried as I sat at the computer today. What would I write? Was I already running out of ideas? Then I remembered fishing the Taylor River in Colorado when a...
View ArticleDaily Fly Fishing Poem #9: Ministers of My Madness
Fish Quilt by Anthony Naples Day nine has come and the experiment marches on. I am not screaming for mercy yet (although maybe you are). You are probably wondering why the fish quilt artwork, well I...
View ArticleDaily Fly Fishing Poem #10: Ephemerella Invaria
Poem #10: Ephemerella Invaria one or two yellow irises bloom, unfolded and delicate, at their feet the stream pauses, circling, traced in foam and going nowhere fast out among the rocks and pockets, a...
View ArticleDaily Fly Fishing Poem #11: Tying Flies to Make It Through Winter or...
Dry Fly by Anthony Naples Daily Fly Fishing Poem #11: Tying Flies to Make It Through Winter or Delusions of Grandeur Fly boxes cannot contain what I tie! Brought together in the darkness of winter,...
View ArticleDaily Fly Fishing Poem #12: Elegy
A note of explanation: For anybody just checking in for the first time, I am in the middle of a project to write a fly fishing poem everyday, during the month of September. I just figured you might be...
View ArticleDaily Fly Fishing Poem #13: The Sound of Defeat
Midge by Anthony naples Daily Fly Fishing Poem #13: The Sound of Defeat Sipping midges all morning, just above a tangled deadfall, there is a fish that made me stay for an hour (or more) and fish,...
View ArticleNew Issue of Rise Forms is Live
A new issue of Rise Forms online literary fly fishing magazine went live today.
View ArticleGuest Poet Timothy E. Haught: Poems by the “Wandering Aengus”
A little while back I got a contact email from Timothy E. Haught wondering if I’d post a few of his fly fishing poems. Timothy’s poems are quite different from my own fly fishing poetry, which is a...
View ArticleA poem: Has this ever happened to you?
I have been sick with the flu. At first I slept all day – now I cannot sleep at all. As I lay on the couch, in and out of sleep strange ideas come in and out of focus. I woke up in the morning after a...
View ArticlePoem: Fat with Promises (a Memory of Alaska)
Fat with Promises (a Memory of Alaska) She is fat with promises, with silver lies and with fictions in her eye. The mountains cascade in slippery slime reflections on her side. She slides onto the...
View ArticleThe Wintertime Blues Project
So it has been a while since I put this collaborative project into motion – but it is done. It is the Wintertime Blues. I won’t say too much about it you can read all about it in the thing...
View ArticleDaily Fly Fishing Poem #7: Small Mountain Stream
Small Stream by Anthony Naples Poem #7: Small Mountain Stream Rhododendron grows Hanging low over the stream Miles to the best fish I wade cold water, and stones Find their way into my boots I thought...
View ArticleDaily Fly Fishing Poem #8: Fishing with Raven on the Taylor River
Raven by Anthony Naples I was a little worried as I sat at the computer today. What would I write? Was I already running out of ideas? Then I remembered fishing the Taylor River in Colorado when a...
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