Date:         Fri, 6 Jan 1995 14:59:59 EST
From: dreaming <mbarker@MIT.EDU>
Subject:      SUB: A Van Gogh Sky

short sketch.  comments?

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                            A Van Gogh Sky
                      Copyright 1995 Mike Barker

    The aching cavities of office windows pock the faces of the
buildings mushrooming under the sky.
    The sky.  The sky.  The sky edged with lacy white in the west.
Almost too tender to touch with paint, those lacy edges drift above
the dirt jumbled below them.
    From behind the lace, the sky fits itself into a band of the
lightest azure blue darkening rapidly into the distant depth of the
sapphire blue heights.  Rippled white then buffers those depths so far
above us from the odd grey-white gathers being pulled into the sky by
the pearly sun hiding in the clouds.
    The grimy red and white T train pulls up.  Bent and twisted
wraiths of humanity pour out and are sucked in, away from that sky
that calls silently to them to look up, look up, look!
    A Van Gogh sky offered for you.
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