Wednesday, June 24, 2015

the single woman

the lighter shade
is better, you tell her
as she hold it up to a window,
casting more
sun onto the swatch
which overlays
the fabric and the paper
she wants
pasted to the walls.
but what about this one,
or this one here,
she says, dancing around
with her palette of colors,
going from
shadow to light
changing everything with
motion.
can you do each wall slightly
less dark
than the adjoining wall
she asks,
her eyes flickering
with a crazed look of
home decorating without a
husband
to make her compromise.

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