shades of chambray

Shades of Chambray

It is time to confess that I have for many years struggled with

getting nowhere on our way back home.

It is a fast ride to the pool below. At the third turn

you’re suddenly trying to make us act like it’s 1964 and

there’s less for them to do around here than when

she didn’t want to give up hard-won territory.

Could it happen here?

It was a revelation to move through the world;

the simple fact was that he was afraid to go home,

never bothering to correct her assumption they were

therefore all the more important now to resist depression—

to really see color, she said. Plus, marketing said,

they went out of Narnia and back into the real world

to capitalize off of renewed interest in the disaster,

and toured the soundproofed room where they were slaughtered.

The boxes were pink with whimsical phrases written in gold;

“All I hurt when I fell was my dignity,” etc.