Daily Archives: November 26, 2012

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The Abandoned Orchard

All night long I dreamed about tree roots.  Specifically the fine little hairs that reach down into the rhizosphere and commune with the surrounding micro organisms in the soil.  Since it’s the season to plant trees, perhaps it was subconscious and conscious trying to fashion an equation:  desire for luscious boughs of future fruit + fascination with the mysterious symbiosis going on below the surface of the earth. With two harvests behind us, we can lift our eyes to acknowledge the old fruit orchard.  It was planted decades ago by some wise person, in the middle of the vineyard.  Before […]