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J. Damerell, Monroe Community College Spring 2005

Needing Blue

Needing Blue

Trickle that sorrow here
into this cup. It's exactly
how much blue I need.

That's what God, an eight-year-old
girl busy with clay and paints, would say.
I assure you, even this hurt's a seed
for something new. You think
avocado and lime were in the first draft?
She didn't plan tears either.
Oceans to puddles were water enough.
Then Adam cried, not yet knowing
what it meant to be a man,
and God saw hues she hadn't
considered. Imagine, with time enough,
the flower your ache might yield.

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