Matt Smythe
Saturday Morning Goose Blinds

Saturday Morning Goose Blinds

We settle in the furrows. Busted cornstalk & camo. Coffee, pipe and tobacco for me, graham crackers, juice and a goose call for Cam. My pipesmoke drifts from the embers, disappears weakly east. The waiting is easy, we have our distractions. Sunrise discovers our black-gray-white decoys in their plastic readiness. Birds wind up their volleys on...
Going Dutch

Going Dutch

I bought a train ticket and boarded at Den Haag Centrum at 6:21 a.m. for a twenty-two minute ride to Rotterdam, catching a subway at Rotterdam Centrum bound for Spijkenisse. In my journal I scratched notes in hopes of capturing small knots I could untangle in poems at some later point. Buildings in their geometric...