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Douglas Tanoury
Sweet Spanish Onions

Not white not red not yellow
But sweet Spanish onions that I seek
In the bins of the supermarket produce aisle
Looking for the color
That is the sepia underside of sycamore leaves in November
And the tan leg and upper thigh of a woman in July

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