GRIZZLY PEAR

written snapshots

The canoe drifted through the night sky.

bl-uh-d or-an-j!

The thought grosses out my daughter.

So the boy repeats it with zest.

Not nice!

And we warn her about imbuing sounds with power.

How about the oranges?

meh.

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At times [the twilight cloud] will overspread the whole west as a sheet of brilliant magenta, but more frequently it blares with scarlet, carmine, crimson, flushing up and then fading out, shifting from one color to another; and finally dying out in a beautiful ashes of roses.

“Desert Sky and Clouds”, The Desert, John C. Van Dyke, 1901

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Bitter orange (Citrus Bigaradia violacea) from Traité des Arbres et Arbustes que l’on cultive en France en pleine terre (1801–1819) by Pierre-Joseph Redouté.

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