OBSERVATIONS ON A HOT SUMMER MORNING

I recognize my friends by the worry behind their masks. In town, the biggest crane we’ve ever seen looms like something in a surreal movie set.

Early this morning, I walked past a meadow overgrown with weeds, the hopeless sticks of elm. Raven flew close, brushed me with the shadow of her wing.

What does it mean to live these complicated days? Have all days been this way, and ourselves too caught up in flimsy occupation to notice?