THE LATEST NEWS and advice on fly fishing, fly fishing gear, fly fishing trips, and fly fishing books and media.Michael Longley: "Sipping at the Stars"
We came across a wonderful line by contemporary Irish poet Michael Longley in Laurel Maury's review of his new Collected Poems. Longley's sonnets are rich in natural wonder, as evidenced in these lines from "The Eel-Trap:"
I lie awake and my mind goes out to the otterThat might be drowning in the eel-trap:
your breathing
Falters as I follow you to the other lake
Below sleep, the brown trout sipping at the stars.
In the Los Angeles Times.
