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A dark sky
getting dark
in leaning whispers

count it down

1. The glass pelted by the rain

2. rattling like the bones of palm trees

3. You’re wearing a rain pelt

4. chrome foliage
& the damp stitching

5. Blood on the welcome mat

while back at the beach
Victory at Sea conditions prevail

all of it the same color
as the teardrop that was pressed
between the pages of a
book I lost a long time ago