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# Shadowleaves
**by Joanie Roberts**

I am
colors
on the outside
 
I brush
up against my insides
rushing forward
 
I trace myself
back into life —
living
 
folded up
against the world
charting a course
 
I am pressed
like a 
grain of sand
 
it’s crystal clear
I’m cut off from my own sight
imagine
 
I am
neither
mix nor colors
 
I find
not a hue
of myself 
 
only the
spirit of 
shadowleaves