Sea of Many Returns by Arnold Zable

Author:Arnold Zable
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ebook, book
ISBN: 9781921799488
Publisher: The Text Publishing Company
Published: 2010-08-17T04:00:00+00:00

I walk the road from Stavros with Martina at night. There are things we see now that we do not notice by day. Exogi is a cluster of lights eyeing our progress from the heights. Cats scurry across our path, but their strength in numbers neutralises bad luck.

Martina is awed by the outline of animals corralled behind mesh wire fences that lean by the road. The last donkey of northern Ithaca grazes in a paddock of its own. Sheep huddle in an almond grove. ‘Animals are clever in the dark,’ Martina remarks.

When Martina is asleep I return to my manuscript. Where she discerns wisdom, I see only fragments. By putting them down on paper perhaps they will fall into place. I am working my way through the seasons in some attempt at sequence, though the images I conjure span the four years I lived with Manoli in the weatherboard house.

I recall unexpected reveries at random: an autumn sun descending over the bay. The rays flow through the estuary, contained by the riverbanks. They are channelled upstream beyond the highway bridge, and cast a red sheen upon river, sea and swamp: a three-part harmony of water. One moment the sun is there, a burning red dome above the waterline, and then it is gone, and in its wake, the gift of serenity, despite it all.

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