April 27, 2024
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The girl and her smile straddle the rainbow. Neon hair the fluid cascades of northern lights, her seafoam cloak the ripples outgrown by the shore. She adores the breeze adorned with gems. Emeralds fly from silk strings in wriggle-giggle wind, as jaded kites made of ruby and sapphire and pearl sit on a picnic checkerboard in envy-green grass betting on play-dates with zephyrs. White dice cubes roll beady-black-eyes at their folly. She chases books as they sail from trees. Their soft-covers as nimble as sparrows’ flit. She leafs through slices of fruitcake, each nutty page a looney tooney frame of insane; Mr. H. Dumpty carouses with Mick Jagger swagger, two baby paisley owls drive a ‘67 mustang car, the car does a hop-scotch down bourbon street. Field-mouse-flowers meow, the moon jumps over the cow, and she sings “the world needs more bumblebees!” The golden palm of a five-fingered maple leaf offers a diamond ring. Palm trees pull up anchor and hover in sunset silhouette like Mai Tai parasols. A two-masted schooner scries seawater for its soul. She laughs as black-habited nuns ride upside-down on the roller-coaster rim their feet kicking the billow-bellies of clouds ‘til they fall into dreamcatchers sticky and tricky as spiderwebs, and a doughy-boy-baker loses the reins of sugar-cookie-horses tilling confetti seeds in a magician's puppet garden where Dali wombs and peacock plumes bloom.
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