Below the City - Rebecca del Rio

[Larry Robinson]

Below the City

for the people of Barcelona 

In the city of Barcelona, a city
Dripping with the honey of youth,
Draped with history contained within
Walls, witness to love and atrocities,
We pass below the streets in currents
Like schools of disparate fish. We pass
Trying not to notice, not to see 
the other.
Youth beautiful, luscious in
Unearned pride, the elderly 
Phantoms of time. In between
Swim children, ignorant of unspoken rules.
Sometimes we're not a school, but
A murmuration. We move as one, dancing
And wheeling, a singular mind.
It's then the massive love
we are when we are one,
pierces the pavement above and
the pedestrians smile, not knowing
Why.

	- Rebecca del Rio 
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