The Bad Candle

Red Tailed Hawk, Sparkill, March 2021. 

This one is around and about with its mate almost daily.

Both of them are very interested in my chickens.

This morning, I find myself beginning life all over again, as I do every day.

Of course I’m born this morning into pre-existing conditions: everything I have ever been, packed in to the metaphysical space of a pas…