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Pink Purslane


standing
      half hidden
among trees
      whose shadows
bar the wood’s
perimeter edge
      what is it you put me
in mind of
                       candystripes
               flannelette
               winter sheets
               deck-chair canvas
               school dresses
               hard-boiled sugar
my sweets?

no     none of these obsoletes
          more the stare
of another assemblage
uniformed     confined
silent in     obligatory
identical     stripes


Kim Crowder