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Spring 1986 • Vol. VIII No. 2 • A Poem |

Deep Fishing

By Richard Eberhart

Poetry is like fishing,
If you have six hooks
On a line one hundred feet down

What you have to do
Is wait for carp to strike,
A mystery of no feeling.

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The New Oxford Book of English Verse edited by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch. Oxford Press. $3.00 Q used to come late to his class in Aristotle’s Poetics which met once a […]

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