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Description
They must have put these
on cave walls once, catching
the side of their hands on
sharp-edged flint
though it would have been closer
to say clay
red and giving
forgiving stained hands and children's faces
which play manufactured now
in the tattered pads of paper wash
and in that other land,
in the ruddy dust of the river bank
where crocodiles bathe, mud-blind,
and yawn crookedly.

Description
They must have put these
on cave walls once, catching
the side of their hands on
sharp-edged flint
though it would have been closer
to say clay
red and giving
forgiving stained hands and children's faces
which play manufactured now
in the tattered pads of paper wash
and in that other land,
in the ruddy dust of the river bank
where crocodiles bathe, mud-blind,
and yawn crookedly.