Thursday, August 18, 2005

Color Scheme of Things

Color Scheme of Things
before and after

The twenty-four inch casket, precarious,
promised to topple into the unnatural hole;
empty platitudes fell like rain.

I never knew pink and indigo clashed
until I saw rosebuds and purple storm clouds
gathered, solemn, over your vault

or the color of dead blood, settled
under the skin of your ears.



Written for an online workshop

1 comment:

LKD said...

Thanks for posting the link to the workshop.

And thanks for posting your poem. I quite liked it.