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Just For A Moment… In Remembrance of Fathers and Sons

Posted by DR. CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTÉS, Deputy Managing Editor, Columnist in Health, War.
Jun 10th, 2008 | Comments

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The River Time Machine

Split bamboo was enough once,
no fancy graphite anything.
‘Whipping the water’ beautifully…
was not yet ‘a casting-arm arc’
plotted with computer precision

Away from clattering cities,
it was just one soul
standing in the water…

Where did the ability to swing the line
so gently left to right, come from?
How did pulling the rod tip back slow
find its knack in a man?

And now, where does letting loose the line
Find its way into men who have been trained
to leave no light showing
between any two moments of their days?

Yet, isn’t it clear that all the old knowing
can rush back into any over-civilized man…
just by him wading into wild water?

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“The River Time Machine,” excerpt from La Pasionaria, Collected Poetry ©1970/2008, C.P. Estés

  • Davebo
    Great post!

    But let me say, I've caught tons of fish on bambo or cane poles. Wading or sitting on the bank. And in a wide variety of areas.

    To anyone who fishes, the difference is obvious. You can probably catch more trout, salmon, crappie, small mouth bass, etc. on that graphite rod with the baitcaster or spin caster or fly reel.

    But you can drink a cold beer and work that bamboo or cane pole and still catch a few fish, if you're pacing yourself on the beer.

    And in the end, to me at least, it's called fishing vs catching for a reason. And on some of my most enjoyable trips, the fish deemed to ignore me. That works for me on a hour or hour and a half drive from the house to go do what I call "relax fishing".

    That said, when you're spending a few grand to get up to Alaska, GIVE ME MY GRAPHITE ROD!

    It is really hard to land that spring chinook or huge Halibut on the bambo rod.

    OK, lifetime fishing nut now sent to the cellar.
  • :)
  • archangel
    ay davebo, a guy who really knows the gear! and the game plans

    dr,e
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