Fly Angler's OnLine "Poets Creek


July 24th, 2000
At Night On the Lake In The Eye of the Hunter by John Engles Excerpt from: Big Water Published by Lyons & Burford, New York, NY We thank Nick Lyons for use permission!

That night, drifting far out in the center of the lake, I watched the star; later, I shone my torch down into the eelgrass of the perch beds, and saw the fish stunned into thrills and trembling of fins. I shone the torch onto my wet hand, the wet sky-reflecting floorboards of the boat, onto the sky itself, the beam widening and thinning into the white fabrics of mist. That night I thought I rode the center of all the widening darknesses to the rimstones of the encircling earth. Later, by starlight seeing over the whole blue surface of the lake trout feeding on mayflies, seeing the cross and recross of rise rings, the slow opening ripples from the bright tiny insucks at the center, I came to think how it might be my boat hung there in a net of fire, but however it was, the light had begun its long reach, even now long afterward, still rising, widening into the body of the sky, through the mists into the last meeting of light beyond which I remember this or not, beyond which even then fearing my life I wished to burn. ~ John Engles About John Engels John Engels has taught English Literature at St. Michaels's College in Winooski, Vermont for many years. He is the author of five books of poetry, including The Homer Mitchell Place, Vivaldi in Early Fall, and Weather-Fear, for which he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He is recognized as one of America's finest poets. He lives in Burlington, Vermont. Other Poems: River Bed by Dave Motes Canyon's coming -- Gunnison by Dave Motes The Flyline by Dave Motes Rising Spirits by Dave Salamone Shadow Jungle or Pike? by Dave Motes The Fish by Elizabeth Bishop The Ongoing Saga of Castwell and Ladyfisher by Randy Fratzke Not My Own by Dave Salamone Plunge Pool Brookie by Dave Motes Breaking by Dave Motes White Miller by John Engels A Fisherman Reflects (A Tribute to Lee Wulff) by Bob Jacklin Fly Box by H. Wheeler Perce When Dreams Are Cast by Dave P. Salamone Upon the Morn by David Salamone The Disconnections by John Engels Damselfly, Trout, Heron by John Engels Why I Fly-Fish by Ernie Harrison Oh, what a Day by David P. Salamone Memories of More than One by David P. Salamone Mudtrapped by John Engels What I Leave Behind by David P. Salamone The Way It Was by Ernie Harrison Awakening by David P. Salamone Eros Tyrannos by James Armstrong Genesee River by David P. Salamone There Is More by Ken Abrames New York by David P. Salamone Reflection by David P. Salamone Last Waltz by David P. Salamone Equanimity by Ken Abrames Deadpool by John Engels Fly Fishing by Tony Grenier This Earth by Gwen Frostic On Waters' Edge by D.P. Salamone Truth or Tale? by D.P.Salamone When Rod and Line Again Appear by D.P.Salamone Too Soon by D.P.Salamone In Golden Light by D.P. Salamone The Switch by D.P. Salamone At Night On The River by John Engles Rainbows False-Spawning by John Engles Hatch by John Engels My Choice by Geno Loro Falling In by John Engles The Guardian of the Lakes at Notre Dame by John Engels Foote Brook by John Engels Looking For Water by John Engels Gutting Bluefish by John Engels The Storm by John Engles Muskrat by John Engels Thunder River by John Engels Forever by D.P. Salamone Aquarium by John Engels Bass by Fred Mather The Crows by John Engles To Love a Stream by F. Thomas Opening Day, 1997 by F.Thomas Pewter River Haiku by Louis J. Wentz My Highlight of Fly Fishing by D.P. Salamone So Complicated But Simple Life by D.P. Salamone Fly Fishing by W.J. Mallory Here's to the Girl - by Sherman Ripley Age Lessening by D.P. Salamone Spring Fever by AF Westervelt FlyTying by W.J. Mallory FAOL Fish-In Friendship by D.P. Salamone Acronyms by D.P. Salamone Signs of a Highway by W.J. Mallory Drift Fishing by W.J. Mallory A Hunters Poem unknown In Flander's Fields by John McCrae Lonesome Coho by W.J. Mallory The Marshes At Suamico, Wisconsin by John Engles East Middlebury by John Engles The Raft by John Engles Eternal Father (Navy Hymn) Pilgrimage by John Engles Testament of a Fisheman by Robert Traver At Night On the Lake In The Eye of the Hunter by John Engles Indulgence on the Wharfe by Gordon M. Wickstrom G n Creek by W.J. Mallory The Song of Wandering Aengus by William Butler Yates The Au Sable by W.J. Mallory You're On the Miramichi by William T. Griffin The Photograph by John Engles Flye Fishing by L A Garcia Green Bay Flies by John Engles T.R.O.U.T. by DP Salamone Beyond The Fly by DP Salamone Hemingway, You Old Bear by Joseph Heywood Individuality by Gwen Frostic Wa'al I'll be Durn by Francis H. Buzzacott The Salmon Leap by Francis H. Buzzacott The Old Bass Ground by Francis H. Buzzacott When the Bull-Heads Bite by Francis H. Buzzacott A Photo of My Mother and My Grandpa Lighting Out by John Engles The Last Day by Deanna Lee Birkholm The North Branch by John Engles A Military Christmas unknown Calendar-spring by David Motes The Fly Box by John Engles Game Warden's Lament author unknown Big Water by John Engles The Best Kept Fishing Secret by Andy Hogan While fly-fishing by Brian Nerney On Common Water by Andy Hogan The Last Cast by Andy Hogan (unknown) by Alfred Lord Tennison A Good Fight by Andy Hogan The Bonny Red Heckle North Country Fisher's Garland This Here Hat's Fer Fishin by Andy Hogan Un-named By Westwood Potomac Water Gap by David Motes More Beyond Time by Gwen Frostic Grasshopper-hands by David Motes When Did We Go To The Michigan Woods? by Anna C. Brackett Behold the Fisherman! unknown Freedom Isn't Free unknown From: Beyond Time By Gwen Frostic Legend of Glooskap By Arthur Wentworth Eaton Rainbow Rising By David Motes Fly With A Gull By Gwen Frostic Self-Knowledge By Kahlil Gibran The Invitation By Percy Bysshe Shelley Untitled By Charles Cotton A Pleasant Time Out By Stoddard The Brook By Lord Tennyson Unnamed By W.Pinkerton The Auld Fisher's Farewell to the River Coquet By Thomas Doubleday Excerpt from Beyond Time By Gwen Frostic Words You Never Tell a Guide By Joseph Haywood Mind Farts & Memory Exercises By Joseph Haywood First Night at Camp Fish Head By Joseph Haywood I Am the Flag of the United States of America Untitled By Whitier The Fisherman By Jack Schweigert Retail Night Before Christmas By Al Campbell Splitting Oak on Mother’s Day By Joe Heywood Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Fly Rod By Eugena Pilek In Flanders Fields By John McCrae Fisherman's Luck By Edward R. 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