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Within the Lines

John T. Hitchner

Hands folded at her chin,
she contemplates her still life:
What colors to mix?
What brushes to stroke?
What lines to make?
Her canvas a vase of spring flowers
on a remembered table.
“How nice...Lovely,” visitors say.
“Thank you,” she replies,
and watches them congregate,
lounge coffee and soda.
Rain curtains a nearby window.
She traces droplets
down the glass,
down into memory
of bedrooms and classrooms,
years of staying within the lines.
No. There is not enough time today
to make another stroke there,
to add more color here.
Perhaps tomorrow. Perhaps.

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