Color sky, Havana lake
Color sky, rose carmethene
Alizarin crimson
—Donovan, Wear Your Love Like Heaven
There is a song I have loved since childhood that has followed me all the way through to now. Singing it back then, I simply loved the way the words felt in my mouth, exotic, unfamiliar. Now, an artist entering her seventh decade on earth, the words have …
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