Plantation
Frederick Livingston
USA
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road an endless slender fruit between
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fields kilometer after kilometer between
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Costa Rica Panama Bri Bri territory
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when I say empty I mean not one
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weed singing bird or scurry of fur
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each bunch bagged in blue plastic
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dangling conveyer wire snaking
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skeletal hoop after hoop to the head
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packing shed heaps of green moons
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swallowed in boxes then enormous
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corrugated metal containers voyage
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disgorge on opposite shores unload
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reveal peal devour sweet soft ubiquity
Frederick Livingston is a Guest Contributor for Panorama