The Ways We Remember

It’s 99% Delmar and 1% Tadaki – the palm-sized nest that Eileen found on her back porch delivered by the Dog God. The bird bed flew in on a Pacific wind this last Vernal Equinox. She held it in her palm examining the soft white hair woven through a few twigs. Soft and light, it is too big to be a Swallow nest; perhaps a Hummingbird; no telling since the lawn held no broken eggs. The white hair braided through and through with a few black ones for contrast. Ron will build her a pretty box to put it in beside the tagged collars. The dogs are gone – gifts to people who need them – Tadaki is mine.