"Love is nothing," she whispered —
Mrs FireShe never gave me the whole truth.
Only the firelight.
A blank canvas —
whose images
have burned themselves into my mind.
Wong Kar-wai · Sofia Coppola · Céline Song.
In the sun-drenched hills of the South of France,
where the cigales sing their relentless summer hymns,
the garrigue stretches —
dry, fragrant, eternal.
Women like my mother still pick wild thyme here
to brew winter tisanes —
to warm the chest —
In the height of summer,
the cigales' song drowns everything.
Even silence.
Even grief.
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They met three times. That was enough.