As in the San Fernando Valley
where I have never been.

As in October.

As in Nell,
who,
in the twilit swimming pool,
wallpapered herself.

It was a paradise.
A pretty powder blue.

She could do almost everything
blue
as a field of blue.

Blue
as in
today's super blue blood moon.

As in you,
Nell.

A chorus of blue dyed bullfrogs.
The still soft hooting of that train

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Nell was my name for two weeks before my parents changed it.