ON THE RADIO … REPLAYPast patchy swamplands & into Kinchel village The bus speeds along Here Comes the Sun on its radio & the sun searing the clouds from the two-day-old Northern storm In one yard, a buzzard stands stoically amidst the chickens & turkeys pecking along the ground A puppy stands in the middle of the road black with white-blazed chest white boots The bus blows its horn & the puppy twists in indecision step there step here where to go as the bus nears & its back wheels bounce The suddenness of his death raises my hands to my face His fear racks my body If that would have been a human child would the driver have swerved stopped? A few hundred meters further a white-chested whited –booted puppy stands in the road The horn-blowing bus swerves as it speeds down the worn road At the side of the road, a white iguana crawls out from the brush Pumping its front legs, he bobs his collared head SANTA BÁRBARA BENDITA . . . SANTA BÁRBARA BENDITA . . . |
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