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Pine Creek Anticipation

Posted on March 4, 2021 by wings of a tern

Suddenly the sky was clear, and the temperature rose well above the freezing mark. Although the ice on local streams and rivers was only now beginning to crack and drift away, I drove to Pennsylvania eager to prepare for a … Continue reading →

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Looking for Survivors

Posted on November 21, 2020 by wings of a tern

No, I wasn’t out investigating a local tragedy or searching the rubble in some post-apocalyptic nightmare, thankfully enough. I was simply on my autumn trout streams looking for survivors of a brutally hot and dry summer season that, reportedly, took … Continue reading →

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Strange Fruit and Other Start-Ups

Posted on July 24, 2020 by wings of a tern

1.  I had a couple of non-related flashbacks to the late 1980s. In the first one I recalled a winter night, trundling off to a movie at Alfred U., in which our four-month-old son experienced his first theater production. Woody … Continue reading →

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Common Sense is Like Running Water

Posted on June 26, 2020 by wings of a tern

I have a new book of poetry just released from FootHills Publishing in Kanona, New York. From the High Hills to the Bay is a 72-page hand-sewn book with spine– pretty cool, even though I understand that poetry is not … Continue reading →

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The Wild Boy Cycle, 1870

Posted on November 19, 2019 by wings of a tern

Winter: Klukey died in a bear trap he had set near Kettle Creek. Klukey died three miles from his cabin, wandering in the deep snow till his feet accidently struck the pan. Those jaws sprang up– held him through the … Continue reading →

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On Skis, an Open Letter, 1989

Posted on January 13, 2018 by wings of a tern

[ I recently found a copy of a letter to a friend with whom I used to correspond, a friend who wouldn’t mind this link to the present time…] Dear C., Last night we had our first significant snowfall of … Continue reading →

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Within/Without, the Wild

Posted on February 1, 2017 by wings of a tern

This weekend, while managing to get in some hiking on the Buckseller Trail in Pennsylvania and on Dryden Hill behind my house, I also finished reading a new book by Walt McLaughlin called Cultivating the Wildness Within. This 173 page work (offered … Continue reading →

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Messing About in Boats

Posted on November 2, 2014 by wings of a tern

My friend Tim D. and I decided to fish the southern end of Keuka Lake in boats… In little boats… On the broad Finger Lake closest to our homes. We got there before daybreak on a Sunday morning with intent … Continue reading →

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