In the few minutes before the morning broke in our home — the quiet when I can think without interruption and take sips, not gulps, of my tea — a tiny bird dropped out of the sky and onto our back deck, right in front of me.
It laid helpless. Not dead —its belly labored with breath. This tiny mess of feathers hoisted its body in different directions unti…
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