Today in good news: after 130 years, the South Philippine Dwarf Kingfisher was spotted at last. A fledgling, a stray, a bright, quick flitting almost twin to the iridescent splendor of a hummingbird. I have never been to the

at a bus stop she waits for something, like the twisted stem of a french woman’s beret waits to smoke in the sun. it is not really a bus stop but a cemetery with too much calm and unhatched

I was never good at math. The teacher would lean over my desk navy sweater, navy maroon alternating tie The smell of fresh yellow pencils and long division. This goes into this, and as a result– the only numbers