"Prayer"
Briefly

As I watch my mother maneuver through the fading palms with her white hair, I'm struck by the beauty of her simple determination to continue despite her solitude.
The imagery of palm fronds and the drifting cypresses evokes the duality of life and death—reminding me of the Italian countryside yet anchored in the reality of the San Joaquin Valley.
Read at The New Yorker
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