Jerry Friedman, quotes ADA: "Van's eye over his umbrella crook traveled around a carousel of
Sapsucker paperbacks (with that wee striped woodpecker on every spine):
..." and offers a sample of living "echoes" in his posting of two pictures
he took in New Mexico: two young Red-naped Sapsuckers and a sapdrinking
butterfly. Another connection is to a Sapsucker Woods at
Cornell...
Jansy Mello: The two photographs were charming and
naturalistically ellucidating. As a foreigner, unfamiliar with these birds,
and having given no second thoughts to Van's carousel covers, I merely played
(mentally) with the bawdy approach of the terms (wee sapsucker
woodpecker). Small stops over a line or a paragraph, such as JF's, bring small
delights. The rythm of "With a flick of coattail and a
swing-gate click..", the indirect reference to ever-present
Chateaubriand ( the Récamier salon) and the allusions in the
displayed book's titles A Sunday treat, Jerry
F.