The sweltering sky. Hourglass frozen against the screen. First inverted whistle of a cardinal in the poplar. Differentiate in a boy's mind gravity from magnetism from simple suction. Small girl skating down the steepest of hills.
Woodpecker walks up the trunk of tree.
Light mottled on the large leaf. XXXI Morning paper bounces end over end across the front yard. Birds loud at dawn, then quiet as day settles in. Evening light under the trees, heads tilted back, necks stretched, attempting to see what, high over the canopy of pine and poplar, sounds like a biplane. Live bird in the collage.