black coffee perks brown
eggplants wax purple
black walnut grows leaves
until varnished, cured
maintaining auburn undertones
bloody black-bird wings
forest curb-side garbage bags
starlings crow, shining the deepness
of a thousand bodied waters
at redeeming skunk stripes,
brick-soled rubber boots
marching to weed stacks
of white-capped potato tires
korean cast-iron hoe turns black dirt
but the sun crusts it
grey
like the shrews
living under the old pump house
who are neither black or white,
much like us
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