Up and up and up
Asphalt squeaky shoes
Hot and hot and hot
Sunbeams directly choose
To find their way upon
The hillsides, eagles yon
Down and down and down
But temporarily
Sweat, pants
Hat, feet
Visible ocean relief
Olive trees offer limited shade
Smells, petrichor
Soil-dirt
Intermittent cars gurgle, evade
Impatient rush to Mediterranean arms
Dashing upon rocks
Urchins pointed into feet
Aliveness, confirmation
Up and up and up
Sundown, sinking, sunk
Sliver moonlight washes darkness
Glow, Orion, dipping
Gurgles, flashlight
Kilo meters, by the thousands
Down and down and down
Familiarity's dinner table
Soreness to a long sleep
Saltiness and scents, to keep
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