Matt Smythe
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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
- 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
- Jul 25, 2015
- 3 min
HARDWOODS
I unearthed my old grad school poet’s notebook this morning. Cracking the cover, I found a sheaf of paper that held several iterations of...
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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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Matt Smythe
- Dec 31, 2014
- 2 min
PEACE, REGARDLESS
I sing my wisdomless parable to the again changing season. To the birds’ hushed morning selves. To the gathering blanket of snow. To the...
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Matt Smythe
- Dec 29, 2014
- 3 min
WEST TO WATER
Midway from Chicago to LA it still hasn’t hit me. Sprawling canyon, salt flat, scrub brown and mountains crawl below. I carried on three...
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Matt Smythe
- Dec 9, 2014
- 4 min
THE COURAGE OF HOPE
I have two handwritten quotes on two small pieces of yellow legal paper taped to the wall next to my desk. Each given to me by friends at...
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Matt Smythe
- Dec 4, 2014
- 3 min
SHOOTING DARTS IN ALASKA
When the day falls and the thin promise of neon rises, the brown liquor and beer go down easier, and with more truth, and there’s a vague...
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Matt Smythe
- Sep 24, 2014
- 1 min
FIVE YEARS
Five years ago today I hit publish on my first post here. I had spend the better part of two months trying to figure out what it was that...
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Matt Smythe
- Jul 22, 2014
- 5 min
DISPATCH FROM BEAVER ISLAND
From the Monday I received Kevin Morlock’s email inviting me to fly fish for carp on Beaver Island, to the Wednesday when the wheels of...
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Matt Smythe
- Apr 6, 2014
- 2 min
GLORIOUS MAYHEM
Last year we got into fish. Maybe a dozen six-to-ten-pound lake-run soupbones that had a mind to break our ankles before we even took a...
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Matt Smythe
- Mar 28, 2014
- 3 min
WHERE THE ROAD NARROWS
When we piled out into the dust and cool of the morning we were barely a quarter-mile from the end of the road. Unlike the sprawling...
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Matt Smythe
- Jan 4, 2014
- 1 min
TRACKS IN JANUARY SNOW
I turn to head back inside pressing new steps into the snow different than the ones that brought me here
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Matt Smythe
- Nov 26, 2013
- 4 min
THE THINGS WE CARRY
There was not much room for gear. A rod tube or two and small day pack each, plus the 5-gallon survival bucket, shotgun and a waterproof...
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Matt Smythe
- Jul 31, 2013
- 1 min
INHALING GIANTNESS
My journal holds a breadcrumb collection from the path I just traveled. Loosely penned notes, dates, times, temps, names. Hopeful...
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Matt Smythe
- Jul 15, 2013
- 1 min
OUT OF OFFICE
Electronic communications will stop somewhere short of my location for the next week. I’ll catch up with you when I get back on 7/23. Be...
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Matt Smythe
- Jun 14, 2013
- 1 min
THAT IS THE TEMPO
The boys and I and my friend Jason hit opening day of trout season on a reasonably-kept secret Finger Lakes stream again this past April...
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Matt Smythe
- Jun 6, 2013
- 2 min
SKIFF FULL-ON RUNNING
Skiff full-on running out of Islamorada open water pounding wave to wave in the backcountry fleeting bottom playing tag rising and...
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Matt Smythe
- May 30, 2013
- 1 min
BY THE TIME YOU READ THIS
By the time you read this I’ll be on a plane that’ll deliver me from my northern Point A to a southern connection that’ll then deliver me...
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