A red-tailed hawk sitting on a telephone pole, watching the valley below him, immense in his majesty. A group of nurses in the parking lot of a clinic, guffawing and gesturing. They were all quite obese, the patterned fabric of their scrubs stretched to the splitting point, and one of them had blue hair. Two old donkeys at a fence by the highway, standing head to tail as if gossiping. The brown one was rubbing his chin along the flank of the gray one. Both of them had their eyes closed in dreamy contentment. A small rabbit was hopping along the weedy ground behind them. A four or five year-old…