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A collaboration over too much coffee.

11 October, 2004

Lilac

I am lilac.
I stop short of being blue
or true
And I cannot brave the excesses of red.

So, I’m lilac.
Mixed up, flowery, almost
pedestrian…

I lie twisted between
the weight of purple and the fragility of mauve.
I am lilac.

Annie Zaidi
Read at Manisha’s, October 9th

Labels: poetry

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