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From: will.dockery@gmail.com (W.Dockery)
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Subject: Re: Deep Blue Sassafras / Will Dockery (repost)
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2025 06:34:15 +0000
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General-Zod wrote:

> Will Dockery wrote:
>>
>>> Deep Blue Sassafras
>>>
>>> You never left
>>> as another day passes.
>>>
>>> Your love
>>> my love
>>> continues.
>>>
>>> You sleep
>>> or you wander,
>>> depending on the chosen myth.
>>>
>>> But those
>>> deep blue flowers in a box
>>> the color of your eyes.
>>>
>>> The deep blue flowers
>>> I found blooming
>>> in the lumber yard.
>>>
>>> I brought them to you
>>> that summer morning in 1982.
>>>
>>> The flowers
>>> that smelled like sassafras.
>>>
>>> Like you,
>>> never leave my thoughts
>>> day in, day out.
>>>
>>> -Will Dockery
>>>
>>> -----------------------------------
>
> Good read, again one of best...

Thanks again for reading and commenting.

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