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TRAINING

   

And we have training.

Mothers guide tots

into play-lots:

low-rise

red and yellow

slides,

frames for struggling

commandos,

rubber-seat swings,

sprung seesaws,

and for softest of falls

a bark-chip ground.

   

Here kids get

an angle on life,

feel the swish of arcs and

coming to earth

at a tangent.

   

Alan Marshfield

   

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