Anywhere by Melissa Campana

Anywhere

On this most perfect porch, a couple sits

On the most perfect purple, wooden swing.

Each with their most perfect thoughts colliding,

To form the most perfect watercolor.

Within this most perfect watercolor

You can hear the most perfect sound of wings

The most perfect humming birds fluttering

By the ears of the giants on the swing.

Within this most perfect watercolor

Is the most perfectly cold milk bottle

Served on a perfect morning with pancakes

And the most perfect pure maple syrup.

Within this most perfect watercolor

Fly the most perfect delicate babies

From a tiny nest in the tallest tree

Next to the giants on their perfect swing.

Within this most perfect watercolor

The ant carries the most perfect grass blade

To aide in the most perfect colony

Allowing the queen to rest as she feasts.

Within this most perfect watercolor

Where the most perfect sapphire and emerald

Flow into the most perfect turquoise sea

The small fish sleep in the anemone.

Within this most perfect watercolor

Rise the soil gnomes and the garden fairies

In their most suitable Sunday attire

For the most perfectly grand ballroom dance.

Within this most perfect watercolor

The most perfect aroma engulfs you

Capturing your senses for time travel

To the most perfect place in all the thoughts.

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This Most Perfect Hill

BY LISA JARNOT

On this most perfect hill

with these most perfect dogs

are these most perfect people

and this most perfect fog

In this most perfect fog

that is the middle of the sea

inside the perfect middle of

the things inside that swing

In this most perfect rhyme

that takes up what it sees,

with perfect shelter from the

rain as perfect as can be,

In this most perfect day

at the apex of the sun

runs this most perfect

frog song that is roiling

from the mud

In these most perfect habits

of the waving of the trees,

through this imperfect language

rides a perfect brilliancy.