Conjuring
bricolage  

The years weigh heavily
and the lesson is jolting,
inseparable from the human quest
to see through each other’s eyes. 

The closest parallel is
a confession, from her youth,
passionate with regret,
as worlds are leaving her behind.

This is free-flowing conjuring
as she begins to make a new life
within an old-growth, forested land
and the living memory of history.

Based on a true story.

Fragments drawn from these reviews in The New Yorker
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