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spotted
dove landing in a nut tree
as if in a dream
back in the seventies, she took a job working the line
sorting
almonds at the Chico Nut Co.’s plant on the
Esplanade at
12th Avenue.
just one of the valley’s many nut processors
California’s almond orchards account for 100
percent of commercial domestic production and 80 percent of world
almond production. Blue Diamond Almond Growers, founded in 1910
in Sacramento, processes one-third of California’s almonds.
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at lunchtime on the first day, her neck was so sore
she couldn’t
raise her head, and she walked off the
line, never to return.
the barbed
wire has rusted
snow falling like almond blossoms
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