Little Beauty by John Beaton Part II: in the "Tight Lines" poetry series. I gaze at river pebbles, a swaying leopard-skin that’s brindled by the eddy-wrinkled sunlight, and hope to see a cutthroat, an inkling of fin; the water’s low, but even so a run might be lying there below the sheltering reflections of stump gray, cedar green, and maple gold but nothing fishy favors my heron-still inspections, no secrets of the river-world unfold. I stand to leave when “splip!”  I see the circles spreading - a trout has made a splash in front of me. The surface window carries a hatch of mayflies shedding their nymphal shucks. I knit my brows to see... when “splip!"  Again he rises and this time I can spy a small jade form descending towards a boulder; I surely would have missed him in that protected lie had he not caught the eye of his beholder.   Hatches Magazine Subscription Price: $6.95 for each issue The Premiere issue is ready for shipping & the Fall 2008 issue will be available September 1st.