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MIRACLE
  

As we sizzle along the roads in Umbria, car-top glints

like the gun-sights of alien intelligences, exhaust fumes

giving us smoker’s catarrh, the valley expendable,

the town ahead a promise of cold beer and plaques,

the day is one of those days squirmed into mind

by the long hauls of discomfort.  Unless a miracle should happen.

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(For full text see the Kindle ebook The Nature of Things (Collected Poems) by Alan Marshfield)

   

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