Streams of Amber

Wheat Field with Rising Sun, Vincent Van Gogh, 1889

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Streams of Amber

When love’s fingertips brush against straw
streams of purple, amber and golden tears flow
trickling down to hungry souls
and dripping into an earth
permeable to tears of human feet
and ambered grace of grains turn
into red, white and blue frosted
independence day cakes

(written in July 2011)