THEY TRIED

They tried to bury

the beauty, the blinding

cold of color in

times of ice and chill.

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They tried to ignore

the defiance of living

things, persisting

underneath it all.

They tried to make

you so much smaller,

pale and chapped,

the color of winter.

They tried—