A: You sent a pamphlet of poems to John M. Bennett and he thanked you for the “fishing stories.”
Q: Yes.
Often my poems are about fishing.
Richard Dobson writes about fishing in Gulf Coast Boys and Pleasures of the High Rhine.
In Pleasures of the High Rhine he writes about Roxy Gordon and Townes Van Zandt.
He played music with Townes and Roxy Gordon was a fellow writer. And hunter. And fisherman.
I write about Potter Brown and my brother Bill.
I fished with them.
I wrote books
called A1A STORIES and HIGHWAY 30A STORIES about fishing along A1A, from Palm
Beach Inlet to Boca Raton Inlet, and Highway 30A, from Phillips Inlet to
Q: Do you still see Slim?
A: Slim doesn’t sleep. Owen calls him from the bus, on the road. They keep in touch.
Whenever Owen and Jean come down on vacation Slim shows up at the house. So I see him twice a year.
I might say Owen and Balder learned to cook from Potter and Suzette.
Balder called their house Porc-with-a-C, or Pork-by-the-Sea. A wild rosemary bush in the yard.
Owen made trash-fish étouffé. Just before you take it up you add a stick of butter.
Q: A lot of recipes in Roots Music.
A: Not recipes per se. A lot of talk about food, certainly.
They grew up watching me cook on the charcoal grill.
Bill was a good cook.
Owen works now as a fish butcher in a Whole Foods Market.
When he applied for the job he told them about all the fishing boats he had crewed on, sometimes as the cook.
We gave him a butcher knife and a bottle of mushroom ketchup for Christmas and the mushroom ketchup is gone and he uses the knife every day. Keeps it sharp.
It’s a 10” butcher knife from Dexter-Russell.
Q: Didn’t you give Balder the same knife?
A: Yes, and a bottle of mushroom ketchup.
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Duke had eyes on it.
Duke wrote “Potter’s Moon.”
Duke was in Demo with Butch Hornsby.
Duke’s friends
with Ron Cliburn,
You might have seen the movie Duke & the King.
Duke played with
Elvis in
He gave us a copy of his new CD at Christmas.
you & i
Q: Lower-case, like e. e. cummings.
A: While you and I have lips and voices, which are for kissing and to sing with, who care’s if some one-eyed son of a bitch invents an instrument to measure spring with.
I thought I’d have a following like e. e. cummings.
