Oka-leee—and echo over the inland sea. Fescue, foxtail and flax, wave on wave, violet, hay-blue, then a sudden whirling swathe of white. Something in this meadow takes us back summers to windy Lamma island, curling path to a hip bone of white sand: nest home for the Hong Kong green sea turtles. Remember the volcanic rock shaping the bay? A glacier’s work, the drowned sea risen; earth’s sweet continuance—
115 Catherine Staples