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Butterflies, sunshine, rainbows,
Red raspberries, strawberries, cherries, lipstick
A fat red lip can change a girl.
Make her braver
Make her taller.
Orange slices at half time, juice sucked dry, pulpy flesh crisping in the sun
Forgotten pumpkins making Christmas jackolanterns
Butternut squash fresh from the farm after celebrating old friends for the afternoon.
Sweet potato fries.
Lemon drop cookies, or candies or shots.
Thursdays, bouncing
Duckies in the tub, or in Jeeps, or in songs
Sand that stretched for miles
Limoncello Croix
Green grass of course the grass.
The softest kind not the razor edge kind that will whistle before it cuts.
Uncle Johnny’s house from my birth until we painted it black when he couldn’t do it himself, kids piled on those kitchen stairs, wanting to be close, but the table has been overstuffed with chairs for the adults already,
Steamed Broccoli, lights that say Go, Dog Go
Linen books of the Bobbsey Twins passed from a grandmother I had for a year.
Blue skies that are cloudless, eyes , and oceans,
Hair, and jeans that you live in authentically.
The houses I grew up in from birth until one day it turned green on its way to black.
Blueberry muffins that I ate every day through pregnancy while never having a craving.
Blue snow on the slopes, blue snow in a cone and on my tongue.
Boo Berry cereal, Eeyore, Grover, Cookie Monster, Blue Man Group
Grimace, balloon flowers, morning glories,
Grape juice, jam NOT jelly.
Lavender and lilacs
Eggplant
snow, Puffy clouds from the ground and from an airplane
Bunnies and rats.
The Halloween Costume of white bunny in a vest who is decidedly NOT the Easter bunny
Marshmallows in cocoa, being put on a stick for roasting.
And the camp smoke that roasts them
Tattered shirts that have disintegrated under spirit and dancing,
New down pillows and the fluff that fill them
Freshly painted molding, the mascara of home-care.
Cats, witches, charcoal drawings, doc marten’s
Dominos, oreos, Black velvet cake, Sharpie
Printed pages, dogs that don’t bite, and even some that do.
Black tie events , Hawaiian beaches and boulders
These are a few of my favorite things,
The sounds of music
NOT The Sound of Music.
Baby skin
NOT eggshells nor chalk
Baking Cookies
NOT Skunks
Lasagna
NOT Beets
Airport reunions
NOT sad babies
Youthful Enthusiasm
NOT Crotchity old men
What are yours, Friends?
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