safety

Image Credit: Goodreads   In middle school, I remember eagerly anticipating the start of S.E. Hinton’s novel The Outsiders. The story, my teacher and friends told me, was electrifying and…

* * * Yesterday, rain brushed every window white, locking us deeper inside. Today, birds mouth mats of mud. In crevices under the deck, the robin is too obvious a…

* * * the virus rested like dew on the grass but they still came back arrogant, red-breasted thin and then fat, as if they didn’t know better spotting the…

Today the rain is relentless and so cold here that I’ve turned on the heat though it’s finally spring.  The house finches have retreated deep into the opaque arborvitae outside…