Fishing Line

Seeking Webben Etymology

This is a casting call 

for the leading lines in a poem. 

You must define “gossamer” and “reel” for me. Are you really fine 

as a cobweb? Do spiders web 

the corncobs before or after 

you’re woven as fish traps? Or is the gossip true? Are you finest 

at catching not salmon 

nor rainbow trout nor true trout 

but the air? Can you do without a feather fly? Do you cling 

to the breeze, tasting

the wind’s oceanic direction 

the way fish taste their homewaters home? Can you handle ballooning?

In air? Through metaphor? 

Of responsibility? Are you the line

for the job? The payment is exposure.