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Clown and child look towards distant circus tents and a Ferris wheel under a cloudy sky.

Clown and child look towards distant circus tents and a Ferris wheel under a cloudy sky.

One Quiet Tear Robin Blake Smith I listened to the child and his heart as they hummed the calliope’s song but the painted tents and cotton candy had all been put away for moving on and I watched as the lonesome clown’s diamond tear was washed by the one he shed. And in the now vacant field as we stood conspicuously alone at yesterday’s center-ring, I imagined all around us the leaping ponies and soaring hearts. So far away it now seemed and the child could only see in their next-town eyes the See more