Lighted Corners 2020

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growth Gingko Leaves and Beautyberry Seeds Earthworks Exhibition Marie Miller

Blue Boy Therese Villarubia Streetlamps make the car slippery with shine. It trundles down the long black roads at a tilt; inside are a girl with her pink happiness and a boy with his mentality colored blue. We talk and we laugh until our chests shake. Mom and Grandmom swoop the white slip under the corners of the table and click the remaining smile-pieces into their face-puzzle. Blue boy and I head into the basement, dump the pieces onto the table, and puzzle over the weirdness of the real adults upstairs with their eyes all a-shine.

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