This happened in the sheep world on the Sloping Meadows. Aja, a big ewe with thick fleece and round eyes, gave birth to her first lamb, who looked like all newborns, a fist of damp wool starting to bleat. It was a girl, an orphan, because a few days earlier Aja had lost her husband whom she dearly loved. The […]
In march the soldiers with rifles on their shoulders. out run through brambles the locals with their bundles. Off fly the envoys contemplating new ways of creating symmetry in a future cemetery. Up go the pundits explicating bandits. Clearly outworded, down go the murdered. The expensive warriors, sailing by on carriers flying Old Glory, signal hunky-dory. Far is the neighbor, […]