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Summer-Winter Crayon Collage
1. Colors in the neighbors’ swimming pool
Like colors in my mind,
Sun’s crayon
Hawaiian clear
Dash of magenta azure,
Make me want to jump inside
Like a cat over the stair railing.
Colors in the neighbors’ swimming pool
Like colors in my mind,
Make me remember our coat closet wall’s scribbles
Zigzagging orange and blue crayon
Like a bicycle wheel on fire—
My brother made the scribbles
They were beautiful
They made me want to jump inside
My brother’s mind.
Colors in the neighbors’ swimming pool
Turn to a reflection of stars when night has come
And so we close ourselves up and pull down our blinds
At the end of the day.
2. Colors on a canyon
Just appeared to my New Year eyes
Took me so close to heaven
When the old year was gone
And the New Year was crying hi.
Colors on a canyon—
Everywhere my New Year feet hiked
Sunlight saturated nature
Glorious flashing blinding daystar
Under God’s chariot.
Creeks and gullies, hidden and half frozen
Powdered sugar snow, crusted with porcelain ice
Fat mosses growing
I thought, this is a year, it’s going to be a year
No reason, no reason to fear—
While glorious flashes
Splintered purple and crystal
Fled from the feeble effort of my camera.
Sun like fishes going over a waterfall.
Now let Creation protect its frailest light
When the words that are lost within us
Reach for the night.
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