3rd Prize
2019 Winner of the Peter Sears Prize in Poetr

Wildfang, Laura

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PURE Insights Volume 8 Article 15 2019 Fly Fishing Romance Laura Wildfang Western Oregon University, lwildfang16@mail.wou.edu Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.wou.edu/pure  Part of the Poetry Commons Recommended Citation Wildfang, Laura. "Fly Fishing Romance." PURE Insights, Vol. 8, December 16, 2019. https://digitalcommons.wou.edu/pure/vol8/iss1/15 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Scholarship at Digital Commons@WOU. It has been accepted for inclusion in PURE Insights by an authorized editor of Digital Commons@WOU. For more information, please contact digitalcommons@wou.edu, kundas@mail.wou.edu, bakersc@mail.wou.edu. Fly Fishing Romance Abstract 3rd Prize 2019 Winner of the Peter Sears Prize in Poetry This article is available in PURE Insights: https://digitalcommons.wou.edu/pure/vol8/iss1/15  ​A publication of the Program for Undergraduate Research Experiences at Western Oregon University   Flyfishing Romance  Laura Wildfang, ​Western Oregon University  Faculty Sponsor:​ Dr. Henry Hughes   Third Prize, Peter Sears Prize in Poetry  Keywords:​  Peter Sears Poetry Prize, poetry     They shipped us home, Waders make him look even bigger, water swirls around his knees. His large arm casts between 10 and 2. His favorite place, the river.  A fish strikes and tries to run, he is patient. If only he was that patient with me. Aggressively the fish fights now around his knees. I know what the fish sees, looking up at the towering body from below.  He scoops the fish out of the water. Gently holding it, I wish he held me that way. He marvels at the colors and size; releasing it unharmed back to the river.  The small bruises scattered on my arms have begun to turn purple.  They match the ones that freckle his back that his drunk father left last night.  Sitting on the bank carefully tying a woolly bugger to my tippet. Fly fishing is done with love. We go fly fishing all the time.   digitalcommons.wou.edu/pure ⓒ2019  

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