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The Olive Harvest (2004)

by Carol Drinkwater

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You are gone. The river is high at my door./Cicadas are mute on dew-laden boughs./This is a moment when thoughts enter deep./I stand alone for a long while./. . . the North Star is nearer to me now than spring,/And couriers from your southland never arrive -/Yet I doubt my dream on the far horizon/That you have another friend.
-Li Shang-yin, Thoughts in the Cold
Je ne puis pas regarder une feuille d'arbre sans etre ecrase par l'universe.
I cannot look at a leaf on a tree without being bowled over by the universe. -Victor Hugo
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I love the gypsy soul in you and the joys and sorrows of your changing face.
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A puzzling silence is the welcome that awaits us.
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In this, the third episode of a trilogy, the author and her husband Michel are looking forward to summer together on the farm but a shocking blow leaves Carol alone. The future is uncertain and she takes us beyond the perimeters of the olive groves to where hunters, poets, bee-keepers and gypsies abide.… (more)

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