Analect 2.691x

6 April 2010. Golden light in blue pool water...

A girl with a small suitcase, travelling who knows where. In Russian, chemodan--the sound like something out of Central Asia--or the mountains of the Caucasus. As in Daghestan--that vertiginous vertical land-- "que nace en el vert ante septentrional del Cáucaso hacia el monte El-bruz..."

Things borrowed, as if on the run--migrations--a shawl, a linen vest--a bag of barley and sprouted peas. The simple meal, prepared over mountain fire--a ring of stones, kindling, gray smoke in cobalt air...