Monthly Archives: July 2026

Out of the Frying Pan, Into the Fire

Coming from the US to France: out of the frying pan, into the fire.  Heat wave –canicule, in French – refers to dog days, which even Homer wrote about in The Iliad:  Sirius rises late in the dark, liquid skyOn summer … Continue reading

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La Tomate

The French vendeur who hands me the tomato in its perfect flesh— he knows.  Some worlds haven’t been destroyed. It is a globe of seeds, juice and pulp that asserts itself, a repository of what we were given in the love … Continue reading

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