April 2021

EXPECTANCY By Thomas Pease, Anchorage   It’s March, but still too early. No nectar to nourish the depleted hummingbird, probing skeletal blueberry plants. No open water to bathe the trumpeter swan, webbed feet now improvised snowshoes, goose-stepping (the indignity!) across the frozen lake. The myth of the early bird shatters, its only reward starvation, freezing, […]