Catching a Keeper on the Cape

Massachusetts law does not require much,

but from a Striped bass it demands 28 inches

or else back in the water faster than you can

pahk your cah, and hope next fly line flick

attracts a bigger fish from the brackish depths.

This isthmus is a place of Puritanical desolation,

stay for two days and you are guaranteed

weather both glorious and inescapably bad,