Potatoes and Pomegranates

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Winter had come to Nicosiaand as the last daylight wentbraziers flared on the sidewalk.In some language of Crimea—or Medea—the men’s heads benttoward an ancient clock. Was it a dream? I ate potatoes“fluffy as a buttered cloud,”and sensed the red earth as “read,”like Aphrodite’s lips in the throesof love: she mouthed aloudthe tale of grave Adonis’s […]

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