Figs, lemons, almonds and holidaymakers,
the fronds of palms and those fierce plants
whose sharp extrusions in place of leaves,
so uncompromisingly rigid and pointed,
could pierce the heart with a dagger thrust,
like the imagined, feared loss of your only child,
here in this arid, heated beauty nourished
by varieties of liquidity, these green and red
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