Here's to Trina, the cock-eyed optimist

Strabismus is a condition in which eyes do not point in the same direction

When Trina watched fourteen vultures with six-foot wingspans

in a bare-branched cottonwood tree outside her door

as they flew away in one astonishing swoop, she did not say,

“The sight of red-headed vultures makes my heart sing.” 

 Ever the cock-eyed optimist, she did say, “Look!  A sign of spring!”