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Board Administrator Username: mjm Post Number: 4378 Registered: 11-1998 |
Honorable Mention Paula Closes Shop Paul Lyons For one especially brief moment the dust and crumbs assemble as stars; less time than she requires to identify the ursae or orion. Even polaris escapes. There is more day than night, more swept tile than sky amid the woven wicker chairs and parasols she gathers here of an evening, closed and empty in her care. She carries hints of beauty as this is done but her hands do not linger with the cane and the canvas. Wrapped stiff as fists they draw the mop among the day's remains, the crusts and mud that cloud the single stubbed butt that glows its last |
