Orchards by Holly Thompson

Author:Holly Thompson
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9780375898341
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2011-02-21T22:00:00+00:00

I climb up

beneath knocking trunks

slipping on dry bamboo leaves

scrambling up to the top of the grove

where it turns suddenly to cedar again

dark and quiet and soft underfoot

until that ends and I hit the mixed forest

of the ridge and a path that Jiichan

once showed me

and Koichi said is still there

and leads to a rock in a clearing

with a view

of the bay

I follow the ridge

which is the edge of the village

just like I remember doing with Jiichan

that time we visited when he’d just turned ill

but still had strength

and sure enough I find the rock

and climb up onto its back

needing that view

that bay

that mountain

but Koichi must not have been there in a while

or at least not in summer

’cause all I see

are trees

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