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Laura Alaniz

Laura Alaniz

A child's memory

Scratchy plaid blanket
Red with yellow stripes
Hot and itchy underneath
Claustrophobia strikes
 
Purple and blue prisms
Bringing rainbows inside
Impossible to catch
Though we always tried
 
Objects burned into
My earliest memories

(2014)

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