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Orange

The sun dreamed

it was a koi fish

in blue water.

The children

were happy to

see her looking

at them. She

took one

more peek at a

boy laughing

before she woke

up orange in a

blue morning.

She stretched

and rose yellow.

It was time to

go to work.

The sun didn’t

know why she

was happy

or what she

dreamed about

in the long night.

 

 

Benjamin Nash has Sun available at Finishing Line Press. He has had poems accepted at 2River, Pembroke Magazine, Louisiana Literature, Concho River Review, and other publications.

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