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Sky Sigh

Story ID:	606
Written by:	Kristine L.
Story type:	Poem
Location:	wa wa usa
Year:	2004

Suspended in space
Your blue-bruised brow
Frowns over hemlock boughs
Cloven clouds seep through your seams
While I watch you glide upon the day
See you swim above the hills
Chameleoned into
Mourning gray, citrus blossom, peppermint.

I spear your rainbow colors
Bounce them back upon the water
Scribble into my book.

If you could stop and I could paint
You’d drift forever upon my canvassed hills
But you are too clever and too quick
For me to catch you here.

Twilight takes you
Swirls a fiery dance
You fling Cold and Dark again
Spit a stubborn protest
Wriggling from my fingers
You drip into the river.

I would keep you
But you’re not mine
So I set my face unto Tomorrow
And wait for you to rise.

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