for the amiable sharing of the yard between our rescue dog now settled in a year and more birds than I’ve ever lived among returned and filling my morning with what Continue reading →

vii. Each season with its privileges. Fat turkeys strutting their wings, families of deer, mutations of bugs, worms in the garden, ants drunk on the sweet sap of peonies (they crawl Continue reading →

the tomato plants teach me how to deal with each kind of person the puffed-up pigeon repeatedly chases off his foes not for extra crumbs but to prove that he can Continue reading →

In this wine-water, tiny translucent creatures squinch up, then go long. Seems that’s how they get where they go, with slight compressions and expansions of being. Around their pool, the granite’s Continue reading →

I don’t understand it, this tinder so difficult to quench by the minute; cigarette flung from car to brush and I am overwhelmed by the burning smell. The highway like a Continue reading →