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Every six or seven years there is a great harvest of piñones far to the east of town. That harvest, like the deer in the mountains, is the gift of God.
House Made of Dawn (1968)
There was a house made of dawn. It was made of pollen and of rain, and the land was very old and everlasting.
House Made of Dawn (1968)
Now and then in winter, great angles of geese fly through the valley, and then the sky and the geese are the same color and the air is hard and damp and smoke rises from the houses of the town.
House Made of Dawn (1968)
And Mariano fell and was exhausted. Fransisco held his stride all the way... and even then he could have gone on running, for no reason, for only the sake of running on.
House Made of Dawn (1968)
...and Abel was running. Against the winter sky and the long, light valley of the landscape at dawn, he seemed almost to be standing still, very little and alone.
House Made of Dawn (1968)
I was a Child, and I Listened.
House Made of Dawn (1968)