Salmanoid Trout have tender scales: a fleshy, unctuous parcel with bones buried so deep it is a fatal squeeze that feels them. But gutted and grilled, each rib pops up delicately, curved like an eyelash. Hook the right one, and it is a fight from bank to bank: running line, bending rod, spooling the reel. […]
Ed McCourt
Ed McCourt is an Assoc. Prof. of English and creative writing at Jacksonville University. His poetry and nonfiction have appeared in the Red Booth Review, the Portland Review, the Little Patuxent Review, Barely South Review, and many others.