Sea of Tranquility (2003)
“Not in this century, anyway. Sylvie knows this, feels this in her old bones. Sylvie wakes at five-thirty today. July 15. The summer slipping by so quickly. Wondering how many summers there are left. The brevity of the season makes her love it all that much more. She awakens with the feeling that there are scattered pieces of something she needs to fit back together. She is significant, important. She is the essential connection between the island, the sea, the moon, and the people. Some kind of... thread she is: these are an old woman’s thoughts rattling around in her brain. And she knows this is not madness at all, yet words will fail her should she try to explain this to Kit or to Elise, the woman from Upper Montclair.
Silence and stillness on a grand morning like this. Some would think the whole island at rest, at sleep, but not her. She feels the life of this place beneath her, all around. She knows the island will sleep again someday, will rest when the world changes. Another ice age, or rising tides from the melting ice caps.MoreLess
Silence and stillness on a grand morning like this. Some would think the whole island at rest, at sleep, but not her. She feels the life of this place beneath her, all around. She knows the island will sleep again someday, will rest when the world changes. Another ice age, or rising tides from the melting ice caps.MoreLess
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