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Red by Andrea L. Alterman Is the color of endings, especially in September when the equinox is near, and the raspberries have all been picked, the cherries pitted, then canned away in the cellar along with the tomatoes, plum for spaghetti sauce soaked in basil and minced garlic, but red overall. Red is the flavor of sunsets, and fires banking down for a long roast, for buds opening into the sunlight, pulling in a beam to show off. Red is the last color of the maple leaf before it returns itself to the roots that grew it, the color of being born, of sleeping in the sun, and kissing slowly on the lips. |
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