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A shirt in the wind

The rain stops.
On the washing line
a yellow shirt
fills with the wind.

Two wooden pegs
hold its shoulders.
Its sleeves lift,
then settle.

Another gust,
and both arms open.

From the kitchen window
it looks, for a moment,
like someone
glad to see me.

A yellow shirt, held by two wooden pegs, spreads its sleeves in the wind. A cream curtain and terracotta sill frame the courtyard.

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