The irises and hydrangeas, as I walk aside, abide in their season. Mallards congregate on shadowed grass; they file out, all seven, young fathers, fatherless, as if to inspect the dust path they will tread, purposeless after mating. I turn with them, aware of separations, though this air diffuses the light, around edges of dark […]

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