Cook's Run, Michigan

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rhmill01
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Cook's Run, Michigan

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Tucked away between tag alders
rippling over cobblestones
and pebbles colored like
a crazy quilt it is home
to brook trout and browns
dotted in blues and reds
darting through glassy pools
and to silk-wing mayflies
that on warm summer evenings
ascend in clouds skyward
from glittering surfaces
and also home to fly fishers
who find in its healing waters
what they are looking for
and lose what in life they wish
they had not found.

R. H. Miller, from Quiet Diamonds, Summer 2022, p. 18.

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Very nice. I have great memories of wondering those waters. I used to go camping in that area in the late 90s. Beautiful country.

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Thanks. YouTube has some lovely panoramas of CR.

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Nice poem. I've fished Cooks. Used to camp up their, near Watersmeet.

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Some of you who have fished Cooks Run may like this book I have. The title is "What the River Knows: An Angler in Midstream" by Wayne Fields, 1990, Poseidon Press. The book is about his family who have a cabin very near CR and he goes fishing there almost every day during the summer. The stream becomes his get away place for contemplating life's complex problems. Very good book Field's is a retired English Prof at Wash U in St. Louis. If you can find a used copy, get it.

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Thank You for that!
In the night I dreamed of trout-fishing - The Maine Woods - Henry David Thoreau

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