The Rush is Over

DIANE WALD


One day the world
of the huge multi-coloured
swirly-spinning eggshell
split and the colours
ran together and the man
who was sitting up in bed 
with a paintbrush on every
finger felt a great pain crack
and slides from his back
till his heart burst free
and taking off all
the brushes but one 
he sighed and sank
to paint one colour at last:
Mountain Rain Green Number 1,
Mountain Rain Green Number 2,
Mountain Rain Green Number 3...

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