Fly Fishing For Muskie

A new gallery for me, The Bell Gallery on Madeline Island!

To the Moon and Back at the Phipps this summer, 
several tiles there and in Hudson Hospital and Croixdale Clinic also.
Here are a few recent tiles and I am busy working on more, large and small tiles.
Thought I'd add a bit of my poetry!

Muskie Caught on a Fly

Epiphany icon

Image burned, 

Etched like film negative

Into experiential archive.

Am I as frightening a possibility

Through her glassy eyes?

Does she awake mid sleep to dream of me?
Do I cause her to awake midnight

As she wakes me?

This fine finned fishy,

This scaly gargoyle,

This fiendish friendMirrors the dramas and traumas

That suddenly spring forth

From the depths of time.

Like creatures rupturing reality

In the length of life.

The River of Now.

We fishers in the river of life.

What lurks below surface, 

Threatening mortality,

Terrifying

Enough to induce invention

Of a plethora of weapons.

A fisherman’s dream come true.

A candy store of fishy wishing.

Relish this joyful nightmare

The powerful writhing,

The symphonic crescendo,

The magnificent ballet.

You terrible beauty,

You thrashing maiden,

You Buddhist tanka monster myth,

You vivid thrill.

Epochal as birth.

Luck is a good thing to have.

A geode broken open.