Blue

ocean weathered paint

covering hand smoothed boards

each year renewed

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The desire to enter spawned the quest for an image. Rejected skies with varying degrees of cloudedness. Wood reminded me of the decks, handrails, and walkways down at the coast, some left natural, or pressure treated, others painted to preserve them from salt-spray and sun. Roughed boards, damaged, possibility of splinters or worse, but many were from well-loved sections of a walk, and had a mix of hands, shoes, and bare feet smoothing them down.

Pronunciation becomes crucial in hitting the 5/7/5. Weh-third vs. weh-thir-ed. Co-vring vs. co-ver-ing. Reh-nude vs. reh-new-ed.