Drought Fishing

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Drought Fishing
Thomas Reiter
 
 
Mid-riverbed, below rapids dry as
 the track left by a pencil eraser, 
 I come to a pool that from bank-side 
 glints like the last thin dime 
 the water's down to. I circle it 
 in minutes, and though I can't see 
 the bottom, I find whirligig beetles, 
 a lotus leaf, the skin of a mud snake. 
 My father in the nursing home wakes crying, 
Where am I? Am I still here? 
 I remember how he taught me 
 to fly fish, backcasting so the line 
 unrolled to a soft tautness1, then rode 
 on a forearm stroke over the water 
 and reached this far, the deepest pool, 
 where stillness might crumple 
 in a brown trout's feeding rise. 
Where am I? Am I still here? 
 A spring from the aquifer2 holds out 
 hope that's here for the distance, 
 a pool to leap from 
 to the whole river and its roe3 and milt. 
 I can reach back for my father from here.

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1 tautness 65f5bdfd14da5b0aee726eb893ae7a0d     
拉紧，紧固度
参考例句：
  • For a string of specified length, tautness and density only certain notes can be generated. 一根确定长度、松紧和密度的弦只能发出某某音。 来自辞典例句
2 aquifer iNayl     
n.含水土层
参考例句：
  • An aquifer is a water-bearing rock stratum such as sandstone and chalk.地下蓄水层是一些有水的岩石层，如沙岩和白垩岩。
  • The wine region's first water came from an ancient aquifer.用来灌溉这个地区葡萄园的第一批水来自古老的地下蓄水层。
3 roe LCBzp     
n.鱼卵；獐鹿
参考例句：
  • We will serve smoked cod's roe at the dinner.宴会上我们将上一道熏鳕鱼子。
  • I'll scramble some eggs with roe?我用鱼籽炒几个鸡蛋好吗？

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