In a blue-painted room under the eaves. Dragonflies too weak to fly in the heat. Flute music spirals upward. Strawberries fall out of tin buckets.

Jeux Floraux de Toulouse, summer festival in honor of the Virgin Mary. Poems to Notre Dame des Fleurs. First prize a golden violet. Then prizes of silver marigold and silver eglantine.

World gray-green as rain begins to fall. What emerges from the mist. Peach-leaves recall the key of C. World that remembers rivers and Sunday afternoons. Tree-shadowed rivers only.
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