meter reader – The Morning Porch

August 3, 2012 by Dave Bonta

Green blur: a hummingbird. Two or three pileated woodpeckers cackle back and forth. The meter reader’s truck, its flashing yellow light.

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Sun climbing every tree at once. A hollow snag mutters like a stomach with its cargo of squirrels.