Daphne and Laura and so forth --
Cressida to Troilus: A gift --
Ava Gardner reincarnated as a magnolia --
Helen of Troy does counter dancing --
Sekhmet, the lion-headed goddess of War, violent storms, pestilence, and recovery from illness, contemplates the desert in The Metropolitan Museum of Art --
Loneliness of the military historian --
Pink hotel in California --
King Lear in respite care --
Vermilion flycatcher, San Pedro River, Arizona --
Shapechangers in winter --
Morning in the burned house.
