workers who reap the gold
though never seek it and
those who observe it all: the
anguish of work and the concern
friendships and disagreements
the sweat of the family man
and the wife’s faint blushing
from the heat of their fireplace
the smoke that spreads over
the house, nobility and poverty
and everything else; nothing
surprises them as they see it all
as in a dream each night under
their tents where they return
being always the same gypsies.
And gypsies came who work
the metal and the welding
the master craftsmen gypsies
and the hammerers are here
with their primeval tools, with
their double bellows, copper smiths
with a myriad tools, specialists
of the always burning pyre
from which they draw all their
strength and power.
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