Jeff Schiff
a more obese man in a rowboat
you couldn’t conjure
oared hard
over a quadrupled gut
A fusty g-ma
spat chaw
stuffing line threaded bass
into a dinged Cabela creel
dragging
behind her Alumacraft
Coyote cutouts
and blow molded effigies
squared off
against nuisance fowl
Bull frogs
throated the vamp notes
Phil Lesh used to herald
the live version of Truckin’
Old love in skivvies gazed skyward
slowsipping scalded java
And turtles played Ten in the Bed
plopping from jutted limb falls
just because the little one sang
roll over roll over