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30 September 2011

Scenes Overheard in Music City, II

for Beth

On a seat in the Spanish subway in September
Sitting silently together in September
Mother's Moroccan inmigrant hand reaching,
resting on a daughter's American turista knee, as
Looking straight ahead and through
the tears falling down her veiled cheeks,
she mourns a sister's pain
on that September Spanish subway.

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