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An Evening Walk
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34 An Evening Walk Inside an ashy flatland the color of dread I began to savor the way the outside tasted— a blend of sweet basil and fresh-rubbed thyme, an erudite soupçon of tarragon in the palate, a lemony finish that rinsed the senses in the memory of a walk up a lane in Somerset betweenWrington and Goblin Coombe beside a yellow pasture with a few cows downhill from an impetuous purple oak, a church tower behind it and beyond the tower blue gone to slate—not many years ago, scarcely a moment, as events return, a daw feather fallen into a weave of thorn among some chestnuts by the roadside. ...