clouds taught me this
on my daughter’s birthday
one more lesson on
the nature of time
sunrise streak of orange clouds
across a bright blue sky
gone in minutes, clouds
and sky fade to grayblue
whether the clouds
remember
or not
I was here with those colors
as they formed and as they faded
and when time changes this sky, too
one of us remembers.
Whatever sky does next
doesn’t unspool the moment
when those colors
were real
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