The faded neighborhood---
a "hymnal" of five colors.
I want it to be in contact with me, so I elucidate its better qualities.
And what
can we say
of the gardenias
that bloom
out of the garden,
overrunning their courses?
*
Red, blue, white. Black, green.
Blue, purple, silver. Gold, gray.
Orange, blue, yellow, white, red.
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(this ambient line will repeat itself, as if on a billboard of dust....)