This poem is taken from PN Review 55, Volume 13 Number 5, May - June 1987.

Levada da Serra

C.B. Cox

After Madeira rain
I walk levada trails,
narrow stone aqueducts
feeding banana groves,
willows, vines, sugar cane.

Above Machico Bay
I slop through muddy pools.
Earth shapes reflect
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