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“
why do you paint in the dark'
i ask him
and he looks not at me
but away
'because i cannot bear my own darkness
in the light'
he is quiet for some time
'but inwardly i am told where
there is paint to be
and i paint it there in the dark
so none can see myself truly
burning in the sun
...more
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― The Little Boy and the Painter
― The Little Boy and the Painter
“
And when the heat caramelized the clouds,
The leaves turned as pages announcing a gilded age,
And when the clouds heaved and molted, the Earth remembered what hope was
one more time;
the fainted light stretched back to places distant and immemorable.
It was again as pure as the promise made in gritty dirt and bedrock,
Ages of industry and inequality buried once and for all,
Like dark matter at the edge of a wild, blue sky.
”
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