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Concrete Sunflowers

Suburban Mask

By D. N. ReyesPublished 5 years ago 1 min read

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Green

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Suburban mask

Identical world

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White house

Brick house

Yellow house

Stranger’s house

Pave the way

for more gray

Clear the way

for the boring green planes

At my grandmother’s house

there’s a neighbor

that breaks away

from the gray

Driveway

At my grandmother’s neighbor’s house

There’s a row

of Yellow Sunflowers

Wild-

Small-

Plentiful-

They are contained

in white buckets

They break away

from the monotonous grey

Gray driveway

Green lawn

Gray driveway

Green lawn

Suburban mask

allows us to bask

in the identical

White house

Townhouse

Brick house

Yellow house

Gray Driveway

breakaway

With your Yellow Sunflowers

of which Suburbia

threatens to Devour

Oh, yellow sunflower

Point me home

from this Gray-Green

Monotone

Utopian Dome

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About the Creator

D. N. Reyes

English Major with a passion for creative fiction and poetry. I like art, I love the natural beauty of the world. I am deeply moved by visual imagery, I just want to capture it to help people see the world in a different light.

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