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Blue Agave

Sandra Elizabeth Larson's Photos

I sleep in sheets the color of the Caribbean Sea at sunrise

Remember a midnight green sky full of stars falling

As I travel fast, West on I-40 towards Arizona

Since I can’t sleep in New Mexico

At least not well.

Pale autumn colors cover me as

My olive skin [...]

Someone…

Someone, I once cherished

for a fleeting few moments an eternity ago.

That someone called me Princess.

I know it makes no difference

to tides in oceans polluted with debris.

Or men fighting wars of religion

over who controls the people praying.

Certainly not to starving children

that I too agonize about,

when [...]