Submissions by Alviola

As with all things mighty, this started small
negligible, a shade of blue infected
the horizon in slow, no, sluggish motion

something large happened on the other side
of the world, and the blue bled from behind
the skyline, the day that comes before ours.

This was the day the white, old man was sworn in
the shade of blue at the horizon bloomed
it glistened on wreckage on the highways

gleamed on garbage bin covers, shone on tents
of the homeless of Los Angeles, woke
office workers living cramped in their cars
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