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Color

An old poem from 2017 I rewrote.

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Daniel Henderson
Jan 30, 2024
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mountain covered in clouds during golden hour
Photo by Nathan Dumlao on Unsplash
My favorite color is gold. 
I love the color but not the atom.
The yellow of crayons is sun-blinding. 
The brilliance of sunflowers is bio-luminescent. 
But in a sea of stones, smooth or jagged, are all still rocks. 
The blades of our biggest star, peaking over the hemisphere,
and coiling around clouds, before a farewel…

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