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April 18 2022

 It is a town of sorts

with a name

famous really 

for a movie made there 


It used to be 

most summer days

where the foggy mists

wrapped cypress into obscurity

rather lonely 

isolated down this or that narrow country road 


There along the fabled coast highway 

a tower of bells stands as a monument 

an artist thought to honor a young life lost

a loss that gave back life 

through pieces of living self

to other people

even to another child and her children 

otherwise never to have been born


There is a sign

it mentions that highwaymen took that boy in Italy

song of the bells brings voice and melody to the transformative acts that followed upon tragedy


Here is proof 

all was not lost

a sculptural telling 

all we are eventually 

is the sound of our once being


clanging of bells now heard 

now silent 


#NaPoWriMo

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