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Thursday, April 9, 2009

Small Street Song

below me, the
tin-

smith bangs his
hammer, the

old man sells
grapes, sweet

he says, try
some you'll see

sunshine his donkey
sways in

time
you can almost

taste it

(from Sentences, 1976)

3 comments:

  1. Wonderful! We taste it, and see it and hear it and buy it. I especially love the hammering, a percussion that accompanies the entire scene and song.

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  2. Love the concrete specifics here!

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  3. J and A,

    Thought you might like to know this was observed from the office window of my first English school, a building that has long since been razed--no more tinsmiths, no more peddlers on foot hawking their wares behind ladened beasts of burden, time slowly running out but still plenty of sweet grapes left to taste! Thanks!

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