fuchsia.
"The instructor said, 'Go home and write a page tonight. And let tat page come out of you -- Then it will be true.'"
And here it is.
My life is fairly new,
my veins a little blue
although I am the colour fuchsia.
Fine spaghetti hair
and a narrow second pair of eyes
that help me see the colour red.
I can't quite explain
why I draw or sing or write --
or listen to the clickity-clack
of keys beneath my fingers.
I try to smile with a lava lamp glow
though it's been called a "mourner's grin,"
which is true
in a caramel candy sort of way.
Sometimes I fall into an endless oblivion
of -bling-daze-cradle-plummit-pop-
and the sleeping sparkle
of an unborn child
or a tear unfallen...
but then it does.
back
part of the feuschia project

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