Between Blue and Green

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by Laine Derr

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I demanded of blue,
dark-throated warbler, a song.
 
I demanded of yellow,
Give me your golden sun!
 
I demanded of red, a tick
burrowed in my side – relent.
 
I demanded nothing of violet.
 
I demanded of orange
its sorrow, for the worms have gone.
 
I demanded of green
its cemented silence –

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Laine Derr holds an MFA from Northern Arizona University and has published interviews with Carl Phillips, Ross Gay, Ted Kooser, and Robert Pinsky. Recent work has appeared or is forthcoming from Full Bleed + The Phillips Collection, ZYZZYVA, Portland Review, Chapter House, and elsewhere.

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