Down dog. Head pressed against a roaring fireplace screen, scorched black, bearing a pistol-drawn cowboy. It took 4 hours of fooling and feeding, with 3 kinds of pine cones, Concord grape vines, a cheater FIRESTARTER: getting the burn-geometry right. Horizontally. Moving to the teepee arrangement. Moving to Lincoln logs. Warmth. Steady. In control. Comforting. So I stretched. The fish is teaching me to arch my back.