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Maureen
Tolman
Flannery’s newly-released
Ancestors
in the
Landscape:
Poems of a Rancher’s Daughter has
been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. Her other books are A
Fine Line;
Secret
of the Rising Up: Poems
of
Mexico;
Remembered
Into Life;
and the anthology Knowing
Stones: Poems of Exotic Places.
Her work has appeared in forty anthologies and over a hundred literary reviews.
Maureen Tolman Flannery The Fisherman He navigates as a stranger the contraptions of his own tackle box. Each time now he must master anew the tricky skill of using his own reel as the line balls up and tangles and confounds. With infinite patience he unwinds what his palsied fingers continue to enmesh. With his few remaining teeth he bites a lead sinker tight around the line, squashes a grabbed grasshopper onto a hook he can hardly see, shuffles to the water’s edge and is a happy man.