From the fresh smell of baking flour in stone ovens, baskets full of strawberries, figs, sugared mangoes, flower juice, endless brick alleyways and fields of Olive trees in Palestine; To the pink-streaked sky of the Midwest, acres of corn fields and icy winters, “Where the Olives Grow” encompasses the feeling of having a heart in two homes. This poetry collection takes the reader on a journey to Palestine, up the rocky hills full of wild camels and Bedouin hands offering tea and back to the Midwest, with her toes in the grass and lightning bugs lighting the way. The feeling of homesickness and nostalgia inspires the author’s free verse poetry compilation.
