| One was in a wheelchair and
wearing what I... 390 |
[Feb. 11th, 2010|02:31 am] |
One was in a wheelchair and
wearing what I thought was a straw hatThe other
pushed her, then sat beside herThey appeared on
the beach around seven AMSometimes the one who
could walk left the one in the wheelchair for a
little while, only to come back with something
that glittered in the early sunI suspected a
coffee pot, a breakfast tray, or bothI further
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suspected they came from the huge hacienda with
the acre or so of orange tiled roofThat was the
last house visible on Duma Key before the road ran
into the enthusiastic overgrowth that covered most
of the island
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I couldn't quite get used to the emptiness of the
place"It's supposed to be very quiet," Sandy
Smith had told me, but I had still pictured the
beach filling up by midday: couples sunning on
blankets and slathering each other with tanning
lotion, college kids playing volleyball with |
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