July’s Failed Poets

By Zoe Younessian

We don’t know what color amounts to. 
I’ll paint you silver or vermilion, whatever the alliteration suits best.
I’m supposed to pin you down like a grain of salt under my fingertip. 
You left to go somewhere I couldn’t name.


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