16 March 2010. Rock Island Refrigerated Dist. truck parked on street, white hood lifted into the air, motor running, repair...
Two young women from Georgia--a Song of Batum, Maia Kalandadze and Nino Komakhidze, standing close side by side. Village women with baskets over their arms--plums and coriander, set against dry hills rising from the sea. A medieval fortress in the distance--the stones for its walls plucked from the same land.
Long faces and sad eyes, as in Arshile Gorky's painting of himself and his mother--A Quiet Garden in Sochi, except that it wasn't Sochi at all, but some unknown village high in the hills. The back country, as Mom used to say, road to Temecula, winding through dry boulder land, dry and hot in mid-summer. The Pala Mission--Asistencia--an old church with adobe walls, worn red tiles. Spanish arch with bells...
San Luis Rey...
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