Second Bloom
Clara, who is eighteen and heading to university in September and who arrives for the birthday gathering with the quality she has always had at the significant occasions: fully present, the notebook in the coat pocket not opened because some things are received rather than recorded.
The birthday bowl from Rosa: the twenty-seventh, smaller than the last few, a return to the simple forms. Rosa having decided that the practice needed to go back to the beginning before going further. This one knows something different from the twenty-fifth and twenty-sixth — not more, different. More honest about what it does not yet know. Pep calls it the most interesting bowl of the sequence.
"More interesting
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