Fern (do over)

This storm is named Fern. A cat named Fern scratched Ilya once.

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Bobina doesn't get paper cuts, or eat too many raisins (or any raisins at all), and she does not count the years or minutes or steps. She looks cute always, and never deletes later. And when the stuk-stuk-stuk of men putting in a new roof for

Trees dam the night

A runner can be a rug

Sometimes I feel like a pioneer woman,

A sprig of something festive

The pomegranates

Mistakes were made, their name was midtown.

Snow day

The wind shakes the snow from the trees, the trees are a snow sifter.

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A tree grows in Belgium

The order of things

A twenty

I found a twenty on the floor and picked it up. If it had been a hundred I would have tried to find its owner. I didn't think about how I'd do that, because it wasn't a hundred, it was a twenty. A twenty

That netted out

A bike industry veteran once told me that historically, mom-and-pop shops had the best credit, because the "mom" always had stamps on her person. She could mail checks to vendors in a timely fashion. I do carry stamps on my person, or nearly s0 – they are