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Color Theory “I envy your yard,” an old woman once said, leaning over the fence we shared, pointing out a cardinal and a jay. “They seldom coexist,” she told me in the quiet voice of the lonely. “If you have cardinals, you can get robins. Just nail a half an orange to the side of a tree.” And though I was young enough to want everything I did not have, I never sliced that orange, never nailed it to a tree.They stay with me still, the things I did not do, the birds I did not call with that proud color which refuses rhyme. I’ve held sorrow closer than I had back then, joy too. I know now how rare it is to see those colors come to rest side-by-side— the red breast, the blue.  ...

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