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An Alien Grace
Dr. Who , television’s longest-running science fiction show, has returned to planet Earth after battling near extinction. Certainly, for anyone who grew up watching BBC from the 1960 to...
An American Egret in a Japanese Garden
Transported who knows why or whence He was simply there one spring- The bird who came to dinner and stayed. Of course we couldn’t help wonder about him. What...
Ash Wednesday in a Hard Winter
Milkwhite in his alb and still as this temple, The priest waits with the stone patience of a heron. I approach in the deadfall of midafternoon, Flotsam blown in...
