My Neighbor Built a Balcony Over My Backyard While I Was Away So I Made Him Tear It Down

at the balcony for a long time. The shadow it threw was slightly longer now as the season turned, reaching further across the grass in the lower afternoon sun. I looked at the maple, at the cut ends of the branches where there should have been canopy, at the freshly turned soil around the post that did not belong where it was. And I felt the particular continue reading …