John Brantingham: Easy Or Hard
Image: Unsplash, downloaded (https://unsplash.com/photos/wT6F0SWV9fs) 13.08.2022. Crows That Weep for Peanuts, 1977 In the spring, Wanda likes to sit with Carl on the porch after dinner with a handful of peanuts that they toss to the crows who know to meet them there. Wanda, who has buried one husband, is preparing herself to bury this one too, and she’s not sure exactly what Carl is doing to prepare. The way he talks since the diagnosis, she thinks maybe he’s pretending that