FOUR HAIKU FOR SPRING Why these thoughts of spring? Is it the smell of the air, the light on the snow? *** For spring gardening, to shake out the dried loam from last fall’s shoes. *** Clear weather at last! The gray hills are green again & five miles nearer. *** He lies in the […]

                         Ornithology Sophocles calls birdwatching a hallmark of men; it jostles beside language, law, ethics, navigation. What could he have meant? Augury? Love of elusive difference? The pagan proclivity for fauna? The zoomorphy of myth? I surmise too the power of naming, Eve dreaming in […]