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Mountain Morning
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Roads sharply wind, climb
through deep rolling lands. Carpets
thick of bananas,
café, palm & bamboo, plumed
heads sodden in the still air.
A young boy stands at
the door of a lone, whitewashed
petate-mat house.
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Cordillera lost
in clouds. Morning sunlight seeps
thinly, glittering
upon wet earth littered with
fallen flamboyán flowers.
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Lorraine Caputo is a documentary poet, translator and travel writer. Her works appear in over 250 journals on six continents; and 18 collections of poetry – including On Galápagos Shores (dancing girl press, 2019) and Escape to the Sea (Origami Poems Project, 2021). She also authors travel narratives, articles and guidebooks. In 2011, the Parliamentary Poet Laureate of Canada honored her verse.
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