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RAMATUELLE, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Look up: a dusty-footed, noon-slow track
Last Line: This was ramatuelle.
Subject(s): Nature; Travel; Villages; Journeys; Trips


LOOK up: a dusty-footed, noon-slow track
straggles to this high place,
a village sculptured from its pedestal,
white crown on a white rock face.

Look down: at boulders, stones and sand cascaded
through evergreens, August-grey;
at gay sails clustered in a tinsel harbour
in a motionless, toy, blue bay.

The village: down precipitous terraces
the arm-spanned alleys run;
and smell of peach and dirt and pine and garlic
brews there with perpetual sun.

Perpetual! Ah, no, now all dissolved
and broken like a spell —
a cloudless noon of one Provençal day:
this was Ramatuelle.





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