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Poems by Pablo Medina
At the Blue Note
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Cityscape 1

 
by Pablo Medina

Let the aroma of need
waft across the river to New Jersey:

all the snow and hills,
a sky that moves and moves.

I saw a rose in the clouds,
I saw happiness on fire.






Copyright 2005 by Pablo Medina, from Points of Balance/Puntos de apoyo. Reprinted with permission from Four Way Books. All rights reserved.
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