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Le Tour Week Two Poems (as mirror cinquains)

Dane Hamann

Pello’s Tribute (Stage 10)

Seconds,
Fragile as lace,
Boil away on hot roads.
Relentless attacks all day long.
The words
“Hold on”
Clanging like bells on every rise
In the break’s brains. A chance 
To win and shed
A tear.


Quadruple Disaster (Stage 11)

Skies full
Of haze. Heavy
Legs and dense trees, some light
Rain in the rolling heart of F…