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American Summer

Poems written while traveling.

Three Tacos 


At a picnic table in the pygmy forest
we spread a tablecloth and ate:

cheese from Utah, beer from Mexico,
local beef, lettuce and tomatoes

surely from some other place.
An arid, intermountain feast—

as the dusk grew the rain clouds
deceased, cactus juice kept me warm

and happy in July's promise of plenty:
our every moment the flies' delight.




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