Two dogs and a Bear . Drank from a stream, walked in deep water, rolled in cow dung. The dogs did. A good day.
memory my father planted daffodils next to the starkes’ 1890 silver maple in 1990. 2025 the starkes and my dad are gone. Their plantings remain.
Gray Emory Coale who do you love, what do you love, do what you love impossible to overstate the transience of the present moment do what you love now