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“Rose-Colored Glasses” by Karen A VandenBos

Rose-Colored Glasses

Once upon a time bore the beginning of
your red stiletto heels and pitchers filled
with Spanish sangria. It was the days 
before life shrank from vibrant color and
abundance injected you with steroids of
joy. It was a time when you puckered 
your ruby-stained lips into a continuous
string of vowels and you braided a rosary
around your ankle. You ate grapes until the 
vines became sterile and discovered derelict 
poems curled in the skeletons of dead leaves 
that fell to the now fallow ground. Day after 
day you believed that it was your birthright 
to break all the rules and curse at the moon. 
When the pitchers were empty and the cold 
of winter knocked upon your door, it was said 
those rose-colored glasses had been ordered for 
your healing.

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Karen A VandenBos was born on a warm July morn in Kalamazoo, MI. A PhD course in Shamanism taught her to travel between two worlds. A two-time Best of the Net nominee, her writing has been published in Lothlorien Poetry Journal, Feed the Holy, Moss Piglet, and others.

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