DDCPoetry

Original Poem Reprinted Online Here: "Catch & Release" by William D. Waltz More Information about the Poet: William D. Waltz Addressing the subject from a distance.  I think this is what I think of when I read an epistle.  Letters are meant to communicate but there's no sense of urgency.  Yes, there might be a sense of urgency within the context, but the epistle itself awaits for a response, so, at least for a while, everything is one-sided.      Dear Reluctant Sportsman,      maybe you'll release one      into the watery teeth of the wilds      a tiny capillary      of our great circulatory system The address to the "reluctant sportsman" is further defined by how the sportsman is reluctant, "you'll release one."  "One" is an ambiguous term in the poem which can be assumed to be a fish or something else.  In either case, the usage of "one" opens up the poem to a higher metaphor of the...