I am grateful to have a feature article in the 20th anniversary issue of the coveted journal The Drake Magazine! The piece alone means enough to me by itself, originally it began as a poem for a friend and in the way of things grew from there into a story that included a canopy of friends. “Once” is a true story, about a boy behind the register at a little fly shop in B’ham that is no longer, but the brick and mortar is still there and so is the boy I think, and still there is the creek a few blocks away he fished in, and over the course of things I made him a split-cane fly rod.
I’ve been fortunate in the way of close friends, and a handful of those friends are in this issue as well, friends I love as blood brothers…Chris Dombrowski, David James Duncan, and Jeffery Foucault and the three of us are casting our rods in here to the kick beat of a Death Cab song we can’t get out of our heads.
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