Deborah Barchi

May 23, 2020

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As I squatted in the leaf litter filling my bag with the smooth, heavy acorns, I listened to the creek rush. The breeze shook the leaves high above me. The grandest oaks in Bear Canyon, with gnarled trunks six feet in diameter, have been there 400 years. The Kizh foraged under these same trees I was crouching beneath — back before the Spanish enslaved them, back before the thirteen British colonies declared their independence from the King.

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Deborah Barchi has recently retired from her career as a librarian and now has time to read, explore nature, and write poetry and essays.

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Deborah Barchi

Deborah Barchi

Deborah Barchi has recently retired from her career as a librarian and now has time to read, explore nature, and write poetry and essays.

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