Isaac Fox

Are those par marks? Didn't know little whitefish had them.

Two miniatures in Boats Against the Current:

boatsagainstthecurrent.org/poetry/2-poe...

#smallpoemsunday

When I was a child / my heroes were grown-ups / and when I grew up / I saw that my heroes / had been children dressed as grown-ups, / and that heroes beyond that / were beings I could not begin / to imagine, as they / looked like ordinary people, / rather uninteresting.

Ron Padgett

@nyrb-imprints.bsky.social

OOOOOH I love this species.

Poems accepted in upcoming print issues for:

- Fairy Tale Review
- Chicago Quarterly Review

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HOW IT HAPPENS I want to staple myself to a passing cloud so I am blameless for war.

Victoria Chang ☁️

@victoriachang.bsky.social
@coppercanyonpress.bsky.social

Editor thoughts when rejecting a submission: this piece is great, but the vibes just aren’t quite right for this mag

Editor thoughts after submitting and getting a rejection: my piece must suck, nobody will ever love it, i’m doomed

Those back bays are so lovely and quiet.

Did you fish worms?

Cool Green Summer Book Review 2025 Whether you bird or fish or love the beach or just love a good story, our summer book review has something you'll love.

My latest book review includes birding, fly fishing, bogs, gulls & a true Galapagos mystery.

Titles by @abbottkahler.bsky.social, @princetonupress.bsky.social, Annie Proulx & more.

Long-toed salamander.

Long-toed salamander.

Found our wedding vows!

Epithalamium that Refuses to Ignore the Possibility of a Zombie Apocalypse by Matthew Olzmann Let’s be honest: what each of us wants is to never get eaten by zombies, and the shotgun-shaped truth of the matter is we’re less likely to be ravaged by the ravenous appetites of the dead...

From the @havehashad.com archive, this poignant, genuinely beautiful Matthew Olzmann poem isn't REALLY about zombies:

www.havehashad.com/hadposts/epi...

16.1 - The FlyFish Journal The Flyfish Journal, Volume Sixteen, Issue One: Featuring Chile, Susquehanna, olivia Elia, Grande Ronde and Switzerland.

"Susquehanna River Suites" by Michael Garrigan is a thoughtful, braided ode to the river my family lived beside and loved well for generations. Lovely essay.

Volume 16, Issue 1 of The Flyfish Journal: www.theflyfishjournal.com/issue/16-1/

Amy Barnes – Tuesdays With Monkey Wards Tuesdays With Monkey Wards Amy Barnes Seven is usually a lucky number but not when I’m the manager and have been number-summoned to the Montgomery Ward men’s department. It’s supposed to keep us sa…

"Tuesdays with Monkey Wards": midlvlmag.com/amy-barnes-t...

"Magic Mirror": www.twinpiesliterary.com/nye-special/...

A few bangers I ran into this week:

@amygcb.bsky.social is inventing her own vibe in Child Craft, with Midwestern, surreal, sometimes austere hybrid work. "Tuesdays with Monkey Wards" and "Magic Mirror" both provide some good laughs and a lot to think about.

That is a handsome turtle

Sauteed dandelion greens rock. Italian style sounds delicious.

Ooooh nice. Still waiting for the morels to pop up in PA

Nice piece! I'm really enjoying that form-meets-function shaping.

That's awesome! I caught a couple white suckers this afternoon, but they haven't REALLY started moving here yet.

The positioning of its eye is so strange

This place looks awesome.

I'm pretty jealous, too--we're still a few weeks from this in my part of PA. This week was nice, but flowers are a ways off.

yesterday's writing prompt (doing one every Sunday all year long)

Ode to the Texture of Grapefruit by Kyla Guimaraes Let me bury myself in life. Let me do every uncomfortable thing over and over and over again. This is me loving myself. This is me jumping into the deep end of a pool in the middl...

Big fan of this one on @havehashad.com by Kyla Guimaraes. It has that Neruda-ish exuberance and rhythm, along with a darkness you don't expect from an ode.

www.havehashad.com/hadposts/ode...

Well, this is timely

Brook trout caught in an Iowa stream. This stream has a remnant population of brook trout and has been used to restock the fish in other parts of Iowa.

Dolly Varden char caught in the Kenai River, Alaska, where they are abundant. In September they aggressively take egg patterns.

Arctic char caught in a river in the Bristol Bay watershed, Alaska. It was a crazy day of fishing for multiple species.

Lake trout, caught in Bear Lake, Utah. Bear Lake has 4 endemic fish species but the lake trout is one of the few non-natives found in the lake. I kept it for that reason.

Char Trek.

Brook trout, caught in a stream with a native population in Iowa.

Dolly Varden, Kenai River, Alaska.

Arctic char, Bristol Bay, Alaska.

Lake trout, one of the few non-native species found in Bear Lake, Utah.

Largescale sucker photograh by Joel Sartore/Photo Ark. I caught this sucker for Joel while he was visiting Boise to photograph some zoo animals. He had a free day and noted he wanted to photograph more native fishes. We went out to a local stream and I caught this native sucker. It was photographed in a tank and safely released.

There's a sucker (myth) born every minute. These are not trash fish.

Suckers are native fishes found across N. America. They are essential parts of the ecosystem. They're cool fishes to pursue.

Photo by Joel Sartore, of a largescale sucker I caught for him to photograph (and release).

The not so elusive AI gar....

Local Fisherman, at the water fall.

This Black Crowned Night Heron perches, at the side of this small falls, and bides his time. then pounces. Spend an hour and you can see how successful his day is!

#blackcrownednightheron #heron #birds #wildlifephotography #photography