The Stork in the Heavens, Revisited

Through the bursting
Medina’s jumbled
alleyways, the local

farmers pull
their donkey
carts, the lion’s

share piled
high with mint,
while others

flaunt cherries,
potatoes, carrots
and a belated

one or two glisten
with artichokes,
whose wild cousins

in the . . .
. . . . . . .
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