Paint a portrait.<\/p>\n
A sunflower splash.<\/p>\n
No azaleas for the spring.<\/p>\n
Daisy do, I dream of you.<\/p>\n
No where to go<\/p>\n
to play when the sickness<\/p>\n
is here to stay, so<\/p>\n
I color my pods’<\/p>\n
chords, in fresh foray<\/p>\n
in the summer time, too,<\/p>\n
when winter cools<\/p>\n
the pastels blue, I wait<\/p>\n
the icy days through<\/p>\n
till robins chirp a tune<\/p>\n
the blue of trampled masks<\/p>\n
in the gutter strewn.<\/p>\n
Let’s play an afternoon away,<\/p>\n
splashing color to a song<\/p>\n
to frame the lonely long<\/p>\n
year, electronically sung<\/p>\n
through organ pipe soot,<\/p>\n
dusty choir echoes, I put<\/p>\n
my ear to the ground,<\/p>\n
where once the sound of<\/p>\n
children played, dancing<\/p>\n
sun beams in the garden–<\/p>\n
but not today.<\/p>\n
We play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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