Suggestions?

I've played around with editing my poem, taking your suggestions into consideration - but now I absolutely hate it. I feel like there's something missing. (I'm sure that happens to everyone when you start editing!) I can't seem to do anything with the "Roman bridge" part, other than DELETE it. Although I like it, but now it doesn't really fit in. Suggestions?


Ronda

Air burns in Ronda.
Lingering from nostril
to nostril,
until the bark’s flames,
poison the dusk of
mountains,
and the clouds gorge
the thirsty leaves of trees
elevated so high,
that rainwater betrays them.

Small houses ornament,
the saddened cliffs,
that were once connected by
streams of clotheslines.

The village children
race across the east valley
to the old bridge of Arabs,
allowing their toes to breathe
the warmth of summer streets;

El Viejo also breathes,
but differently.

He sits in the Plaza de Toros,
pipe in hand,
dispelling myths of
a youth he barely remembers,
but often recalls.
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Vertigo overlooks el Tajo.
And with each step,
the Roman bridge shrinks.

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The scent of churros,
baking in an oven made of clay.

The Ronda of my childhood,
that is now gone.