<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><p class="p1" style="text-align: left; margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span class="s1" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Vinny’s Garden</span></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-indent: 36px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); min-height: 14px; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br class=""></p><p class="p3" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-indent: 36px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">It was one of many on the street lined with sycamores; </span></p><p class="p3" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-indent: 36px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">fifteen square feet of patchy grass sprinkled with seeds,</span></p><p class="p3" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-indent: 36px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">an invitation to starlings, sparrows and pigeons, all </span></p><p class="p3" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-indent: 36px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">oblivious to each other’s feasting, yet not interfering. A cat</span></p><p class="p3" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-indent: 36px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">crouched quietly beside a yellow rose bush; two squirrels </span></p><p class="p3" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-indent: 36px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">cavorted about in great haste chiding one another; people</span></p><p class="p3" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-indent: 36px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">strolled by with indifference to the living harmony.</span></p><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Marvin Blaustein</div></body></html>