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This one and “april” really complement each other incredibly with the months of march and april and the two places Vancouver and Tribeca, and really I saw them as similar stories relived in different hues, modulations of the same themes, and I saw the love letter of each to the other like eyes within their eyes, as if they once stood opposite one another, and spoke colors to each other until their identity was the gray that was them ten ways together, and them ten ways apart.

It feels sacrilegious and heretical to do this, please forgive me if it’s too far from your truth in these, but I spliced some of those beautiful lines together like blue and orange torn out from green and purple:

wearing old skins

for the people we weren’t,

when we were younger.

it was march, then

i’d held the idea of you so close,

older eyes

(i can tell when you’re writing

he tells me.

you get this look in your eyes)

still-older thoughts

what happened to the children we were?

as if they were never there at all.

as if memory was nothing but imaginary.

as if the passing of time means waking

up in a new body,

over and over again.

(coming home

means returning to

relics; stores closed,

some intersection whose streetnames i didn’t know.)

over and over again.

somewhere in Tribeca,

a love letter to Vancouver, city of bridges:

“people very dear to me,

to see the indigo mountains

kiss the cerulean sky,

this season is for tulips

and this is everything;

i still have yet to remind myself

that i’m only a visitor.

(it was nothing at all and it’s dead weight i’ve been holding on

afraid to let go for so long)

and we diverge

over and over again.

the trees blush pink

in the sunset,

you turn the corner. i blink,

it’s april and snow still blankets the surrounding peaks.

(i used to dream of times like this)

it was the first time i’d seen you in nearly ten years.

boulevards bracketed by cherry blossoms, petals bursting in the pale spring sun.

i’d forgotten how you looked from afar. 

like the april of Vancouver,

to the long march of Tribeca,

strange to think the scenery i grew up in was so different than theirs

(you get this look in your eyes

over and over again)

i’d held the idea of you so close

until i ‘earn’ it in some way

i refuse to let myself purchase things

as if love is the only proof that it happened

that anything ever happened at all

the roses still have yet to bloom

as always, with love. <3”

She calls herself gray,

as she plays with her colors,

when two strong spirits come too close

together

the clouds of June

framed by melting eluate

cloak her flowers

but the roses bloom beneath

like lightning clawing from the

collage of swatches

tendrils wandering

like students milling about

arcing at hard corners.

she is building the streets

with the names of her city

lost in a new body

at some inevitable intersection

seeing this look in your eyes

over and over again

old thoughts so strange to think

a single set of steps is all it takes

for the people we weren’t

to feel daylight again.

that love,

ever-happened!

like sorting two pigments,

the hand of the mountain,

from the sleeve of the sky.

faded images ever relieving

the flowers stamped last summer

that,

blink,

look again,

that vibrant look again,

see the colors swimming

under two reflections of a bridge

they cross together home

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gray's avatar

i don't know if there's anything else i can say except this was beautiful

as always, you're reading between my lines better than i ever could. maybe my only truth is the one made in your form, too.

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Trisha Le's avatar

I absolutely love mori point

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