how the light shines like a thrush in a parrot’s cage sometimes the shadows win the precarious position of proffering promises bounty hunter, buxom blonde, bag of loot bubbles galore that’s a wash time gets twisted but the tales get told Study: painting in twilight little pitchers it will last the year as things transpire … the opening steps of a dance I already knew one fly in the ointment making piranhas look like goldfish new sheriff in town dear, my darling lavender true