The way it turned everything blue
even bluer
like the north wind
on days like today
deepening the lake
to cobalt
and bringing fall
a little closer—
an old slide found
in a desk drawer
held up to the light,
moving the past
into the present,
into a day
too blue to last.
from Between Lakes
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