(1.) Violet<\/p>\n\n\n\n
some senses are memorials<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I will forever lay flowers
by the smell of a lunchbox
that has carried home
an apple core<\/p>\n\n\n\n
and the sound
of a woodpigeon cooing
when tides of dusk
lap at the shores
of the longest day<\/p>\n\n\n\n
and the sight
of a woman
framed by an open window
whispering to me
only in smoke
the depth of night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
(and the feeling
of scar tissues meeting
for the very first time
somewhere in the dark.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
(2.) Indigo<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Some tides
are not promised to the moon
some are moving toward even the distant most stars<\/p>\n\n\n\n
perhaps it was one of those
that carried you away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
(now you perish again
in every second glance<\/p>\n\n\n\n
and the corners of my eyes
are a graveyard
where the stones
only hold a single name.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
(3.) Blue<\/p>\n\n\n\n
and when it fell
rain on the glacier
nobody called it a suicide<\/p>\n\n\n\n
but I think
sometimes it’s good
to mourn the changing of state<\/p>\n\n\n\n
(I am 759 days sober now
and in that time I have written 215 poems
and all of them
have been a eulogy
to the people we cannot hold onto
or ever be
again.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
(4.) Green<\/p>\n\n\n\n
all must die<\/p>\n\n\n\n
may it ease you<\/p>\n\n\n\n
these moments amid death<\/p>\n\n\n\n
these shimmering
dreams of green
in maelstrom sleep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
(some will go their whole lives
without wondering
if this universe
is not just a drop of lichen
upon a stone called God.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
(5.) Yellow<\/p>\n\n\n\n
my dear,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
if anything
had ever stood a chance
at rearing the sunflowers of my heart
from the toothless cruelty of death<\/p>\n\n\n\n
it would have been you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
(but alas,
you only existed in touch
and I,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
well…
not so much.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
(6.) Orange<\/p>\n\n\n\n
somethings
exist
only because
they cannot be touched<\/p>\n\n\n\n
like the sunlight
that slumbers
in the backgarden
as stowaways
in cauls of rain<\/p>\n\n\n\n
one shattered ocean
harboring another<\/p>\n\n\n\n
a universe
clinging
to a clothesline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
(they talk
in their sleep
but it’s all in<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Radiohead lyrics.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
(7.) Red<\/p>\n\n\n\n
sometimes
our tears
become weapons of mass destruction<\/p>\n\n\n\n
in a sense
I am a product
of a myriad
of intimate apocalypses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
(sometimes
I sit and watch
the eidolon grazing the fields
and I cannot help but wonder
if darkness finally flooding
this wound called light
is really such a bad thing.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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