two brushes

two brushes
one wide
one narrow

brushes brushed
on a painted sky,
the wide brush
saturated in blue.

The nearby clouds
still freshly swept
with wet paint
                  delicate margins
                  golden delicious.

Wet clouds picnic
on blue grass
gay cloth mats
in sere silks

                        cirrostratus
            undressing
the wind

barely covers
distant pale blues
thinning to wash,
the day folding into
faded picnic cloths.

Clouds of leaves, blue grass,
black velvet waves roll in
on menacing shapes, night
thunder shaking the mats,
ants carry off crumbs of moon

many times their own size --
stars the size of raindrops
spatter the milky way.

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