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recall them to life
on Día de los Muertos
with tears, songs, sweet bread

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Shuffle the papers, declare
to the uniform your reason.

25

rhythmic thump of feet
on wood slats, death's head puppets
wobble crazily

24

steel gateways arching above,
memory fibers sculpting

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why did we leave, wanderers
trailing dust, sand, rocks
clinging haphazardly to

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Motion, stillness, illusion--
Which is it? Are we here? There?

21

looking in plain view
passenger aisles row
after row, no exit

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breath steams window art, daisies
jut yellow, white, exhausted

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down stairs to platform
electric oil smell
noses pressed to glass

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with phrases on displays
we crane our necks to read

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dun rock, sparkly white
quartz spiderwebs, no diamonds.
true gold flakes entwined

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Lift the lantern: in glinting
shards the light shows diamonds.

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caves below the crust
salted with light, pepper pitched
coal scattered, shovels

14

uprooted, train tracks speed through
narrow tunnels: go go go

13

Telescope focus,
Microscopic visionary--
Earth promise, ants, trees...

12

no, there is one who sees, her
eye enlarged, watching land pass

11

gyros and lemon
cacophony of taxis
leaves fall, unnoticed