It rained all day today, the kind that doesn’t announce itself with thunder or drama, just starts sometime before I’m properly awake and keeps going without checking in. I noticed it first as a change in the light coming through the back room window — flatter, grayer, like someone had put a thin cloth over … Read more
It arrived without any of the courtesies I consider standard for a new presence entering my sightline. No gradual approach along the fence, no polite pause at a distance to be assessed. One moment the gutter above the back room window was empty, the way it has always been empty, and the next there was … Read more
There is a spider in my window today, and I want it on record that I did not invite it. I found it this morning in the usual way I find everything important, which is by nearly walking face-first into it. The windowsill in the back room is mine. It has been mine since before … Read more
