la vuelta: week two in poems

Sep 06, 2022

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Stage 10: Elche to Alicante

A day of whiplash—
trading mist-soaked
green slopes for flat,
palm-studded shores.
The great whooshing
rush of the pack, all
shouts & gear shifts,
traded for the solitary
sawing of disc wheels.
One by one, the riders
stop atop the big ramp
below the golden stone
fortress before they’re
sent to attack the walls
of themselve…

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