A visit. Mediterranean fish stew with fennel, tomatoes, tentacles of squid. Talk of Thessaloniki, Damascus, dental horrors, poetry, a vanishing Vermont.
Outside the window, a sharp-shinned hawk explains the explosion of feathers in the garden.
A walk along high upland pastures. Talk of love, difference and similarity, hopes, literature, men and women, passion, ambition, inheritance, self, determination. Doggy exuberance, sap running, brooks overflowing.
Tea, Spanish fig-and-almond cake, the piano: solitude again, reluctantly inhabited.
Nightfall, another visit. Sap falling, last words, memories of love, Arab poetry, Greeks and Syrians, men known and women desired, a gentle letting-go of hope, ambition.
Heading home through dark woods; a deer slowly crosses from one side to the other. I wait.
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