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       LYN REEVES

       Yellow Paper

               

                 (a letter from Julie)

 

 

     Pages of yellow folded inside a plain

     white envelope. Its calligraphy sparkles.

     These pieces of sunshine pushed

     under the door brighten the room

     with more warmth than burning coals

     and more light than the morning

     in new willow leaves. Words

     on yellow paper say the universe

     is generous: spilling patterns of sound

     and pictures, pressing on doorbells

     of secret houses, waking windchimes

     hung like frail nests in the branches

     of memory, and billowing

     the brown sails of a moored boat

     that frets for ocean currents.

     Words on yellow paper share the call

     to journey into word-worlds, distant

     and impossibly near, to gather up

     the runes, throw them down like dice

     and follow their signing.