Mending Art

by Robert Dana

Originally published on July 18, 2007

A long fall. Our winged whimsy, Art, sailing above the kitchen soffit atop his little figured house– a lopsided star above leaping orange fish and green waves in front, a sea scallop in a heart out back– penates of culinary skills and poetry– went crashing yesterday, nudged by a shadow. * All those divine powers [...]

What It Was Like Before Dark

by Robert Dana

Originally published on July 1, 2007

Rain-light and rain. Late afternoon. And just beyond my kitchen window, two young deer the color of fallen leaves pass slowly through the green and yellow paisleyed air. Big ears flicking. Pausing. Turning to look at one another. They’ve come to graze my neighbor’s last frost-sweetened windfalls. Golden Delicious. Dozens a-bubble in the clipped grass. [...]