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“Long light and there’s something in the air. Frog-song and bug-song in the air. Honeysuckle in the air. Dew in the air and beading on the tips of petal tongues.”
― Summer Solstice: An Essay
― Summer Solstice: An Essay
“It is June. I am in Shanghai and I am not tired. June in Shanghai is for cold bubble tea, for kissing, for three-yuan ice creams and misty rain mixing with sweat on skin.”
― Tiny Moons: A Year of Eating in Shanghai
― Tiny Moons: A Year of Eating in Shanghai
“The bamboo leaves give off a deep, earthy scent that permeates the air throughout the end of May and early June.”
― Tiny Moons: A Year of Eating in Shanghai
― Tiny Moons: A Year of Eating in Shanghai
“Maybe we give other names to grief because we are too scared to call it by its name.”
― The Island of Missing Trees
― The Island of Missing Trees
“There are not enough jam jars to can this
summer sky at night. I want to spread those
little meteors on a hunk of still-warm bread this
winter. Any trace left on the knife will make a kitchen sink like that evening air
the cool night before
star showers: so sticky so warm so full of light”
―
summer sky at night. I want to spread those
little meteors on a hunk of still-warm bread this
winter. Any trace left on the knife will make a kitchen sink like that evening air
the cool night before
star showers: so sticky so warm so full of light”
―
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