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Excerpt from Paper Pavilion (2007):  Boy Clown

Boy Clown

            In my dream, his shadow throws the rubber balls

at Agua Caliente & Avenida Juarez,

so the boy can walk a few paces back

to see the swirling he casts everyday

for coins in a coffee can at his shadow´s feet.

There, he can study how to toss faster & higher

to slow the oncoming traffic to surprise,

or he can keep going backward

till the loop seems to burn a white portal

in the summer noon sky &, there, decide

how much further back to go for a good start.

I shall always say I´m lucky to wake

remembering this part.  He gets low to the concrete,

pulls his body taut, & tucks his lean arms close.

Then he sprints & leaps through the open

door above the cars past his shadow below.