As fall approaches each year, I begin thinking about putting out grain and suet for the birds; there is still time to help some of them fatten up for a long flight to winter quarters. And every year I chafe at having to wait until the nearby bears hibernate.

When Masque & Spectacle, a twice-a-year literary magazine now in its tenth year, announced its interest in “prose that has a sense of poetry,” I sent them a little essay on the problem. They liked it: My “Bears and Birds” is now published online. You can read it ==>at their website