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Ramon

Deanna Schroeder

Ramon has red shoes
that still show new
so he kicks gray rocks
in the dry mountains
of So. Cal.
His brother Kaj's shoes
are blue
but also new
and the same brand. i They play
in American dirt.
Kaj's born of their mother
Ramon of a different woman
but
at four and six
they're brothers
in America
with new shoes,
equal in all but birth.
Ramon's from Guatemala
and his shoes are red.




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