Tag Archives: poetry

More Than Fish That We Are After

Posted on October 19, 2022 by rivertoprambles

I’ve returned to fly-fishing the local rivers and smaller streams, my first solo outings on the water in quite some time. These were modest outings, casting bamboo and smaller graphite rods, catching and releasing a few nice browns that rose … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged autumn, fishing, fly-fishing, nature, poetry, prose, streamers, Thoreau, trout, writing | 19 Comments

Crazylegs

Posted on October 12, 2022 by rivertoprambles

Flipping through the pages of my old literary magazines, I recently found a piece that I had written long ago and had published in a Philadelphia magazine called LaZer (1994). I’d completely forgotten about this personal reflection from my youthful … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged bar talk, Crazylegs, fiction, human nature, local history, poetry, realism, short story, writing | 14 Comments

A Diminished Thing

Posted on September 23, 2022 by rivertoprambles

On the last full day of summer, I experienced a somewhat inspirational event. It was a simple event but one that I could not have known earlier this year, prior to surgery on my spine in August. My brother and … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged birding, camping, hiking, Loyalsock Creek, poetry, Robert Frost, The Oven Bird, Time, World's End State Park, writing | 18 Comments

A Trout in the Milk

Posted on April 29, 2022 by rivertoprambles

“Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.” H.D. Thoreau On April 15th Leighanne and I drove south from the wintry residues of western New York for a weekend in the Pittsburgh environs … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged language, milk, nature, poetry, travel, trout, writing | 24 Comments

The Antipodes

Posted on March 29, 2022 by rivertoprambles

The British writer, H.T. Sheringham (1879-1930), has been critically lauded as one of the best angling writers of all time, who wrote primarily of local waters but whose style can appeal to readers of wider interest. An advocate of any … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged antipodes, books, fishing, H.T. Sheringham, Learning the Terrain, nature, poetry, scop, struggle, trout, wild birds, writing | 16 Comments

It’s Here! Learning the Terrain

Posted on February 18, 2022 by rivertoprambles

I’m excited to relay the news that my new book, Learning the Terrain, has been published by Wood Thrush Books in Swanton, Vermont. The book is now available from Wood Thrush, as well as from Amazon (Kindle or paperback) and … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged coastal fishing, ecology, flora and fauna, fly fishing, Learning the Terrain, memoir, Nature writing, poetry, prose, Walt Franklin, Wood Thrush Books, writing | 24 Comments

Winter on the Genesee

Posted on January 17, 2022 by rivertoprambles

Creak of beech bough, crack of ice. No eagle sharp-eyed for a fish, no wild duck drifting on the flow. So, what is here? The trout are unobtainable, the sun glimmers faintly in the canopy, the promise of a snowstorm … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Catskill Mountains, Genesee River, hiking, meditation, poetry, skunk cabbage, snowstorm, Theodore Gordon, trout flies, writing | 33 Comments

Water Lines

Posted on December 7, 2021 by rivertoprambles

I hadn’t been fishing in a while and felt the need to reconnect. We’ve been working on the house all year, and some of the wettest months on record have produced poor opportunities for being on the water. Still, I … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged animals, connections, dialogue, dream, fishing, mother nature, play, poetry, tracks, trout, Water, water lines, work, writing | 17 Comments

In Praise of Hemlock

Posted on November 19, 2021 by rivertoprambles

Indeed, the most precious things of life are often close at hand, obtained with little cost, and we give our thanks for what sustains us. A short walk from my home is a grove of hemlock trees. I often enter … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged birds, ecology, forests, hemlocks, John Burroughs, nature, poetry, preservation, solitude, spirituality, woolly adelgid, writing | 34 Comments

A Burnin’ Barrel Monologue

Posted on November 9, 2021 by rivertoprambles

“I remember when it wasn’t so easy getting there. We didn’t have a nice road along the crik. Had to come up out of Cross Fork, or else hike down along the Hogback on that path… what’s it called, the … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged autumn, climate change, drinking, fishing, folklore, hiking, monologues, nature, Pennsylvania Wilds, photography, poetry, trout/salmon, writing | 12 Comments