Rainbow Dark
Rainbow Dark I’m red with rusted coif Like ruined Jersey fruit Carries all the shame. My cheeks crimson With love and anger. The thrumming of this heart, A poisoned sanguine tide Races through chambers, rushes in place. The ardor of an orange summer Melted midriffs hollow Like paraffin under the wick. The stuff of sticky innocence. Sweet potato, carrot, pumpkin, peach Fill the torrid crust of me Until the sun’s demure retreat Heralds Autumn in crisp concession. Deposit green, counterfeit. Permission slips ahead of caution, Fresh, fragrant, fruition. Nascent and naive I fumble. Envy picks up the ball And scores, in sick defeat The foamy rip tide sucks Flotsam, flings the weed unanchored. Cast in the blue, deluged. Hypoxic, hypnotic moon Shines, its violent beam Refusing to drown the doldrums. There appears a jay, descanting. Arise to bear my heft aloft. Firmament embrace and like a kite I poise ‘til reeled aground. Amid empurpled peaks, I pluc
