He came north to fish before I was born, built a cabin lakeside, burned kerosene lamps. In green fisherman’s hat, canvas and mesh vest festooned with lures, my grandfather rowed a heavy wooden boat, caught forty-inch muskie, stringers of northerns. Boats changed from wooden to aluminum. As a child I heard the early morning chug […]
Melissa Rendlen
Melissa Rendlen is a semiretired urgent care physician who recently moved to her beloved northwoods of Wisconsin. Her poetry has been published in the Ekphrastic Review, Nixes Mate Review, and the Missing Slate, among others. Her first chapbook will soon be available from Clare Songbirds Press.