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A Telescope? A Kaleidoscope?
I
Their thoughts spin like a smashed oval-shaped record,
But protect her like the whimsical rings--
Of Saturn.
Rivers--
Of evergreen pine needles wrapped in
Streamer-thin strands--
Of cilantro.
While
cas
cad
ing
rain like glass bead shaped tear drops
Catch the dandelion like parts--
Of withering lackadaisical fields--
Of fountain mystic purple grass,
Almost like autumn leaves beneath your freezing feet,
& wool between your pinky toes.
II
goats mulling over amethyst bud snowflakes
lined by flowing palm trees
with cyanide green leaves.
he treasured silky skylines intermingled with neon colors,
passing like rainbows
over maple glazed sunset beaches--
of paradise & laughter.
while terracotta summer evening skies electrify
white wine whips--
of moonlight,
as scorching aurora's
crash near…
the darkening & foggy scenery.
III
a slightly bent right angle triangle
with sporadic fingerprints & tic-tac-toe patterns.
as their past memories & scars
flood fluorescent fields--
of crimson light.
IV
outdated keys and switchblades
are the hands to their brothers clock
as doves with marble colored wings are lathered in
neptunes seas
of lavender paper mache
while careless empire yellow and mango rays
of light
illuminate trident shaped notes
to be happy not melancholy
to watch a summer storm
without their tears being the accompaniment
to feel pain
not emptiness
& loneliness
to be heard not silenced
to be free again
to live again
farewell…
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