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City Glitterfall

January 21, 2011
By safediamond BRONZE, Honolulu, Hawaii
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glitter falls
running-water silver and spray-paint gold


ROARING TOWARD ME
down,

down,

d


o


w


n
tilt your paper now
thousands of shining little eyes on the nighttime hillside


ROARING TOWARD ME
a city glitterfall.

© Hoang P., Rochester, NY

The author's comments:
One night in the car, I looked up at all the lights on the black hillside near my home, and they reminded me of how a preschooler tilts the excess glitter off his sticky construction-paper craft.
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