Two squirrels slowly circle the trunk of a walnut tree, gray against gray, frenetic tails sending Morse messages through the heartwood.
June 2008
6/2/2008
Sun in the tops of the tall locust trees. Even in blossom, they look disreputable—as if they’d been targeted by a passing flock of geese.
6/1/2008
5:20. The bat returns to his roost in the crack between the porch roof and the house like a handkerchief returning to its pocket.