they were perfect mornings,

when I’d lie in bed with my arms

running parallel to my headboard,

and listen to the gutters chew weather

in their sloshing way---

the water, I imagined,

not its usual blue

but instead teal-and-gray,

like hospital gowns

or the muted lighted that dripped down

on those days,

far heavier than the rain.

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