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Diesel Eddy  

Book three of impromptu trilogy.

  At the Bakery


Our somnambulance was briefly noted by the interest
of a youngish, balding man reading Plutarch

in an espresso bar where, outside, the light
was tempered with cumulonimbus and remorse.

The otherwise worldly details we had come to neglect
now seemed worth neglecting—a cup of coffee spilt

would have added curt action and detail to this
quiet place.  This was, perhaps, the first time

I had thought to notice the dust gathered
on the promotional displays, or the kind way

the women behind the counter kept the tea boxes
from rising above the framed photo of  M. L. K.



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