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John Addiego. Tears of the Mountain
Tears of the Mountain
For the Reader
• ONE •
• TWO •
through the chinks between logs
• THREE •
the dark room
• FOUR •
pigtails suddenly appeared among the branches,
• FIVE •
with the last of morning’s dew,
• SIX •
blue eyes might appear above the breast-high grass
• SEVEN •
water swirled about the mare’s shanks,
• EIGHT •
jewels of light in the heavens made him feel
• NINE •
the voice of his father
• TEN •
William took her in his arms
• ELEVEN •
the dead seemed to speak to him
• TWELVE •
sage, like incense
• THIRTEEN •
by the hand of the Lord
• FOURTEEN •
stripped and naked
• FIFTEEN •
This is my beloved son
• SIXTEEN •
dry wind blew sand against their wagons
• SEVENTEEN •
dancing to the battered Ernest Tonk piano
• EIGHTEEN •
snow for two days and two nights
• NINETEEN •
redwoods behind the house
• TWENTY •
blood on the fiddlehead
• TWENTY-ONE •
stones tumbled in the creek under the wheels
• TWENTY-TWO •
death and revenge swelled like a flooding river
• TWENTY-THREE •
the face of John Charles Fremont,
• TWENTY-FOUR •
the thirst for knowledge
• TWENTY-FIVE •
crime is a virtue
• TWENTY-SIX •
Elijah Applewood hissed at him
• TWENTY-SEVEN •
of the friendless, O
• TWENTY-EIGHT •
the news from Sutter’s Mill
• TWENTY-NINE •
Lucinda, I need your strong and gentle
• THIRTY •
of the mad, the wild face
• THIRTY-ONE •
her petticoats exposed,
• THIRTY-TWO •
his rope wounds were hidden
• THIRTY-THREE •
the rosary swung before Jeremiah’s face,
• THIRTY-FOUR •
on a glossy black stallion
• THIRTY-FIVE •
no matter how smart
• THIRTY-SIX •
the Fourth of July footrace
• THIRTY-SEVEN •
the magnificent animal
• THIRTY-EIGHT •
Don Moraga lived in a dry crease
• THIRTY-NINE •
his hands trembled on the reins
• FORTY •
his wife
• FORTY-ONE •
Mercy has a quality,
• FORTY-TWO •
the dead and the living
• FORTY-THREE •
a night bird crossed the sky
• FORTY-FOUR •
Mother was beside Teresa and Miguel
• FORTY-FIVE •
her heart sent blood
CHRONOLOGY OF SOME HISTORICAL EVENTS AND PEOPLE IMPORTANT TO Tears of the Mountain
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Tears of the Mountain
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“Beautiful place you have here, sir!”
Jeremiah felt a sudden flush of shame. His father, a pious man beset by misfortune, had taken a modest view of man’s dominion over the earth, and the earth had generally decomposed the works of his hands in quick fashion. He’d erected a series of simple, jerry-built structures based on notions of the land and people about him, the Californy cabin being his ultimate effort: here some lumpy adobe brick, there some logs and planks from a giant tree he and his son had felled; here a few curved sleeves of bark from that same redwood for a roof thatch, there two mismatched windows bartered from the local Spanish alcalde for a buggy wheel. “It’s a miracle that it’s still standing.”
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