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Children sitting in the dirt all in a row

Children sitting in the dirt

A row of children in the dirt

Bellies all in a row in the dirt

Tin cups in a row

Small children with eyes

Flies in the eyes of children

A row of children in the dirt

Dear God, what is the perfection in this?

That we see and do not despise you?

                                         

                             -------------Grace Cavalieri

 

Acknowledgement: Pembroke Magazine #37, 2005

 

Grace Cavalieri has authored 14 books and chapbooks of poetry, and 20 produced  plays.  In 2005 she won both a Paterson Prize and the Bordighera Award for poetry. Her series "The Poet and the Poem” is in its 29^th  year, now from the Library of Congress via NPR satellite.

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