Exceptional free verse Absolute by michaelcahill YES, OF COURSE, HER

Absolute   I was so young perhaps a dandelion though it is slight--       it falls to pieces           and goes …               somewhere,               it intrigues   a daisy then, mistreated petals dipped in inkwells      we are young      and fickle      indecisive without      conviction   a rose-- screaming red dripping with dew upon my tongue      yes        yes         and another          still one more               over there               redder still   all the while I notice the sky … it remains always some shade of blue sometimes filled with clouds--       they play       they teach       they seem to reach             for somewhere             I wish to also go, and color seems to matter in the sky …but light leaves           taking the color casually away   I take all of this with me to sea, for it is blue I seek, for once I embraced   her   on a sandy beach,     the sky and sea conversed   out there   and the whispers reached me      but just echoes      of a promise   I’m adrift now no land in view dandelions remembered daisies too a single rose alone a black silhouette   clouds have parted ways as light probes seeking exactly the right hue   finally … finally I find the color I once shared   the deepest   darkest   perfect   blue   Recognized

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