Remember coloring Easter eggs?
They smelled like iron and vinegar.
Sometimes they cracked in the jar of dye just as the color began to take.
We kids fought over colors: why did we all want purple and then yellow?
I can't remember one beautiful egg that we made,
but five kids splashing and fussing at the kitchen table
was a magical creation by Mom
who made it happen
for the sake of Easter.
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