Krypton

A tennis ball glows

abandoned on a lawn.

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Outside a bungalow

a porch light greets me with

automatic courtesy.

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Low sun slants

over the road

jagged cracks

like horizontal lightning.

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Two early flowers

camellia and rose

shyly red.

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Red is the colour

of hope,

black, of rest.