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CLUTCH OF KIDS
A clutch of kids
live in the basilica
tucked between the island’s pleats where raisin-ripe grapes
still drape from vines
trees are gnarled
as old farmers’ arms
the earth is strewn
with overripe figs.
By day, they don’t speak
-- one kid picks
one hides one seeks one spies one fixes. The air is still rich,
streams and fish aren’t slow with plastic.
When sun rays withdraw from the basilica floor’s fissured mosaics
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