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Photosynthesis

                                                                                                                                                  for eb Who knew leaves could land like this. Twin silhouettes  on wet pavement. Half a century of travel to meet again, sisters. Water and sap through veins. Decades of San Joaquin Valley orchards of orange fed by concrete aqueducts. Leafless hedges like  oversized bonsai in the hundred degree heat.   But then, under San Francisco Bay’s sky eucalyptus scent so heady it’s medicinal, this arrival on spindly fronds. Your familiar intonation.   Such root pressure ...