A Scene

Sweet lime trees orange, lemon, raspberry bushes. A few moments more: cypress trees, olives, palms. A moment later: rice paddies and poplars. Then: a land all covered with poppies every year, every year the plain is many-colored so many-colored that all the painter's colors down to the last speck must be emptied onto the canvas; only to show one open corner of the embrace of soil and seed ...