Pomegranate }
by Susan Blackwell Ramsey
is what she told the painters
she wanted the dining room. Not cinnabar,
not cowardly salmon or high terra-cotta.
And they would go on trying till she got it.
Anyone buying into this neighborhood
should insist on a clause which stipulates
the seller must move five hundred miles away,
a ten year margin before she can return.
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