The Paper Airplane

The Paper Airplane

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The Paper Airplane
The Paper Airplane
Rainbow, Rainbow, Rainbow

Rainbow, Rainbow, Rainbow

Tight lines, Yeats, and Elizabeth Bishop

E. Lily Yu
Jul 16, 2021
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Rainbow, Rainbow, Rainbow
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Most days I have no luck with the trout. Some days1 I pull in four, one right after the other, and lose a fifth as it nears the pier. Then I eat trout all week, in a series of economical and delicious dinners.2

There’s nothing fancy about fishing for rainbow trout, which are farmed in hatcheries and dumped into the state’s lakes by the thousands. Sometimes…

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