38. I'll paint for you something blue

She held my hand a bit longer. The moment lingered and stranded as though I was going to miss watching her fingers making love with the piano keys forever.

37. Street Dreams

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36. The echo of a distant tide

“She was a flower of the mountain when she put the rose in her hair like the Andalusian girls ... and how we kissed under the Moorish wall”

From the diaries of J. J.
June 16, 1904

35. In the cold light of morning

"Tomorrow's only a kettle,
whistles away,
in the cold light of day."

34. We set to sail on a packet full of spice, rum, and tea leaves

"Tell the tale of the Jewess and the Mandarin Chinese boy,
He led her down from her gilded canopy of cloth.
And through her blindfold she could make out the figures there before her,
And how the air was thick with incense, cardamom, and myrrh."

33. and winter in the cave

“If there’s a bustle in your hedgerow,
Don’t be alarmed now.
It’s just a spring clean for the May Queen.”

32. Dish of the senses

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