Daniela C. Lara
Certified Public Accountant
1701 W Highway 90 • Alpine
(432) 837-5861 • Cell: (432) 249-1040
Fax: (432) 837-5516
Email: dlar449@yahoo.com
P O E T RY
by BARBARA GREGG
HEAVEN’S PORCH
For Madge, Jaybee, the cat
and Pun’kin, a baby skunk.
A morning just outside Ft. Davis, gray cottony
clouds atop Blue Mountain slowly slide down —
a misty fog bank that fills Blue’s valley. Fog soon
covers a white farmhouse and windmill which
disappear into the rainy avalanche. I see nature’s
drama from a house up a hill across the road.
Here, an intricate rock porch has seating for daily
theater with a feathered cast of hundreds. Tiny
yellow butterflies and bees gorge on nectar.
Rock and metal shamans sanctify wraparound
gardens. This adobe casa has wide tile and brick
patios, large cedar posts and a musical tin roof.
An oasis where fat dove, scrub jays, lesser
goldfinch and a covey of scaled quail looking for
their snacks gather around feeders. Hundreds
of hummingbirds also assault sweet water feeding
tubes. These black chinned, ruby throat, broad
tailed and other playful sprites work to survive.
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432.837.7476
605 E Holland Ave • Alpine
1250 N. State Street
Fort Davis
432-426-3141
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Cenizo
Winter 2020
Daily, a ladderback woodpecker pair feast on
suet and — while hanging upside down— drink their
fill of sugar water from hummer’s special feeders.
At dusk, a baby skunk arrives — cleans up dropped
seeds, sips dripping water and looks to the house —
hoping for wieners that sometimes fly through the air.
Heaven’s porch is nurturing, with nature’s soundtrack
as background. Time flowing gently lets worry pass
on by. Life’s memories become simple, healing.
Here I can believe that there is hope for our future.