Lines Cast

‘So this is the face of the ocean.’ / John Savoie

Who could believe the matter at hand,
wisp of cane, blue thread of light,
a golden hook hung with blood
and cast beneath the brimming sea?

Yet I waited on the magic,
at end of the endless pier,
grooved the pole between my toes,
traced words and faces on ocean’s edge,

jabbed at pincered sandworms
groveling blind in boxed seaweed,
numbered the waves lifting brightly,
breaking in the slatted dark below . . .

Line, cane, spine jerked tight. Nothing ...

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Editors’ Note
Issue 29: Fishing with fathers, what we go out into the wilderness to see, and how Joy began to find Jesus. / Ted Olsen
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Fishing with my dad lends itself to all kinds of spiritual metaphors and benefits. But that’s not what keeps me casting. / Andie Roeder Moody
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