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This is how the tale begins. Cold water shimmers down the mountain, sprays and glimmers...
The tail's tale

This is how the tale begins. Cold water shimmers down the mountain, sprays and glimmers as fish jump. A flash of glistening scales.

And this is how the tale sometimes ends: sunset along a swift flowing stream, the sizzle of a fillet that makes the day seem ... perfect ... somehow.

Yet in between there are untold stories: the raven on the wing, the dive of an osprey ... fellow hunters like you, casting a fly from a rod, hook seeking the bushes. You try to drop it gently into a dream where supper will be fooled. But who's the fool? In hip waders, you wander through waters, a touch of ice biting through layers ... a nip in the air.

But there ... between a rock and an eddy, in a deep pool lies yet another fool. It bites and pulls but you pull harder. It tires out first. But ... ah ... too small and a protected species. Hook removed, it wags its tail goodbye.

So many tales. So many beginnings and endings. Each chapter a story of its own, a way at the end of a day to tell tales of the one that was caught, taller tales of the one that got away.

How some flip a smile like fins wagging good riddance and slip into the glimmer of yesterday.

© Kåre Enga [168.227] #23 November 15, 2011.

Note: earlier version:

This is how the tale begins. Cold water shimmers down the mountain, sprays and glimmers as fish jump. A flash of glistening scales.

And this is how it sometimes ends: sunset along a swift flowing stream, the sizzle of a fillet that makes the day seem ... perfect somehow.

Yet in-between there are untold stories, the raven on-the-wing, the dive of an osprey ... fellow hunters like you, casting a fly from a rod, hook seeking the bushes, you ... trying to drop it gently into a dream where supper will be fooled. But who's the fool? In hip waders, you wander through waters, a touch of ice biting through layers, a nip in the air.

But there ... between a rock and an eddy, in a deep pool lies yet another fool. It bites and pulls but you pull harder. It tires out first. But ... ah, too small and a protected species. Hook removed, it wags its tail goodbye.

So many tales. So many beginnings and endings. Each chapter a story of its own, a way at the end of a day to tell tales of the one that was caught, taller tales of the one that got away.

How some flip a smile like fins wagging good riddance and slip into the glimmer of yesterday.
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