One beautiful dream
I dreamed of African violets
uprooted and transplanted and repackaged
transported from their ancestral lands
introduced to newly formed territories
I found myself walking unfamiliar streets
passing one storefront window after the next
each one blossoming with the latest
sensation of the season
How am I to distinguish the real
from the imaginary from the ever falling rain
replenishing the good earth with new life
one beautiful dream at a time
october two thousand nineteen
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