The soft nature of Southern climates

The leaves fall early this autumn, in wind.

The paired butterflies are already yellow

with August.

Over the grass in the West garden;

They hurt me. I grow older.

- Ezra Pound

The River Merchant's Wife; A Lette (After Rihaku)

I've been asked hundreds of times what attracted me to Brazil. I wonder myself. The easy going culture was important, certainly, but the main factor was the climate, which...