There was a cardinal in the dogwood tree, just six feet away from where I was sitting in my rocker. The bird was blinded to me by the mosquito-mesh wall of the verandah. I didn’t move a muscle. Against the flurry of white petals, the cardinal’s crimson feathers were like a holy wounding, a splas…
New World
Jonathan Raban
There was a cardinal in the dogwood tree, just six feet away from where I...
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