My wife was worried about the dead limbs in our backyard walnut tree. It hadn’t really dropped many limbs, but there was one huge dead limb that loomed over the back porch and the kitchen. If it decided to let go, there would be a lot of damage.

in the cab home, i remembered an old classmate

whose last name was the only thing i could recall

as it sounded so close to aparador [1]

and how in a small school talent show

In my garden the flowers

are dead. Clouds

gather for snow. Wind

shakes the branches.

My cat steps to a window,