by Peter Mladinic
Odell and I
were making coffee.
Outside there was an event,
a talk, a guy impersonating
a historical figure. Odell
was talking about fly fishing
and as he talked
I could see him
in the water,
in the blue water
with trees on both banks
in Colorado. I could see
the waders, the line
in water, the hand—
Odell’s making coffee
in the kitchen.