Reflections on the Writing Life

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Saturday, January 21, 2012

View From Afar

An Exile's Lament



Beneath the golden balm

Settling on the fields

Evening steals in calm

And farmers count their yields

The bee is in the lavender,

The honey fills the comb,

But here a rain falls never-ending

And I am far from home.


-- Jacqueline Carey
 
at January 21, 2012
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