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Matt Smythe
- Sep 3, 2020
- 1 min
GOD BLESS BLUEGRASS
thank fucking god for that guitar making the most of his chance in hell whiskey with two ice cubes amphetamine fiddle and impossible...
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Matt Smythe
- Jul 23, 2020
- 1 min
CORPUS CHRISTI
I wake to the wilderness in her eyes and a futile wish for cool air from the ceiling fan. Morning coffee and a cigarette on the porch....
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Matt Smythe
- Dec 31, 2017
- 1 min
WIDE OPEN AGAIN
We’re just about ready to put a fantastic – and challenging – 2017 in the rear view. It’s been a year of change for me, my family, and...
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Matt Smythe
- Nov 17, 2017
- 9 min
FIVE WEIGHT
Not here. You fuckers cannot follow me here. His dad looked over his shoulder from the tailgate at Charlie, standing in the tall grass...
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Matt Smythe
- Nov 9, 2017
- 2 min
FIRST LIGHT
At first light I returned to where we had last seen blood. A sparkling sheen of frost on the fields, thin ice on standing water, and my...
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Matt Smythe
- Jan 4, 2017
- 3 min
DO WHAT YOU NEED TO DO
The 4th day of the new year is winding down. A couple fingers of bourbon. Leif Vollebekk singing Cairo Blues. Two dogs vying for heat-run...
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Matt Smythe
- Nov 21, 2016
- 5 min
THE RANGE OF OUR UNIVERSE
Aleida shot her first deer, a healthy 2 year old four-pointer, during archery season last year. It was her first trip into the woods as a...
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Matt Smythe
- Nov 14, 2016
- 4 min
THE NEXT SEVEN
This past September fishingpoet quietly reached the 7 year mark. There’s nothing really noteworthy about year seven. There’s no precious...
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Matt Smythe
- Sep 8, 2016
- 1 min
WATCHING THE SUNRISE OVER SEDONA
I closed my eyes for one inhale and exhale stood waiting and small sage on the wind reminding me that I am west again so many stars...
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Matt Smythe
- May 31, 2016
- 1 min
THINKING OF MY LAST TRIP TO THE KEYS ALMOST ONE YEAR LATER
and the moon stuck with us a full half the day three-quarters hanging high and quiet to the west a translucent whisper not...
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Matt Smythe
- Feb 2, 2016
- 2 min
GIVE ME TRAILS
Over the course of a summer of running trails in my favorite park in upstate NY, I had pretty much written a poem in my head. When I...
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Matt Smythe
- Dec 2, 2015
- 1 min
DECEMBER SECOND
Right outside the back door a Plume Moth is gently perched on the siding. Unique, tiny, and intriguing, but out of context. “It’s...
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Matt Smythe
- Sep 4, 2015
- 1 min
BRECKENRIDGE
In just a short couple weeks, I’ll be heading out to Colorado for the 2015 Breckenridge Film Festival. As some of you may already know,...
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Matt Smythe
- Apr 17, 2015
- 1 min
THE DISTANCE BETWEEN
They’re like clockwork against the far bank. Two browns holding down the midge-buffet line. Rise…rise. Count three. Rise…rise. I know how...
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Matt Smythe
- Apr 1, 2015
- 1 min
HUSH FOR ONE SECOND
hush for one second I said hold still what do you hear I asked geese wind everything then off they went
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