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The reconfiguration of grand dreams
Christian Century, June 28, 2005 by Steve Wilson
The reconfiguration of grand dreams --near Biertan, Romania Confusing, how the landscape stumbles-- there is sky beyond this sky, a backyard of chickens, a broken dog. Ambition, like green fields, slows upon autumns and the few ancient trucks. Work earth, plow and hoe, bent over the soil again. Years of this sameness. Years of the white sun. To marry a girl was the one thing. The other, talk--long into nights out past the river. Sometimes three of us found ourselves there. We shared what we had, even failures we'd carried in our coats. In that certain dark, nothing but compassionate days, when our tilling turned the ground to wider orbits, to order. A village closes upon itself. The road's rise toward Copra Mare is the firm hand urging. Doorways are boundaries children learn to respect. Someone, born to it, swells within his father's isolation, painting his barn a fierce yellow. Hay in the lofts. I know how surely we fall to ourselves in this world.
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