lakepoem # 8

garrett, two, got a fish hook
through his finger when he grabbed
his brother’s line had to go to the
e.r. I was seven when a kid whipped
his line back and snagged me right
between the nostrils I blubbered back
to the cottage carrying the fishpole
the doctor had to cut it out I don’t know
what lured garrett I was caught on worms

This article appears in Jul 21-27, 2011.