--IT’S A BITTERSWEET SYMPHONY OF LIFE

                                              The Clearing

And isn’t it all so easy, everything?  How to trap a moth?  A bear?  How to shoot the stunned deer working its jaws in the clearing?  How to skin the carcass?  Flay the steaming meat?  Call it recreational?  Mount the head on the dining room wall?  Note the width of its antlers and the way its glass eyes stare back unblinking, agreeable now, wishing they could speak, render you correct and say, Yes, you are right again.  Everything is so easy.