Protective clear sleeve is a window
four textured lines are
bright white canvas
embracing to crop and frame with
paper too thick to cut unlike
the image that slices existence like
the unexpected knife of a soft page
to a fingertip
Riveted red iron dominates
an obnoxious specter growing
from frozen tentacles
formed by waves shocked in artic air
melting like candle wax down
a fire born cylinder as blue
Transparent clouds gestures down
hanging from the sky like wrinkled pants
a bit off center is the space where
reds rage and blues melancholy gather
center of attention is tined purple like a
grape snow cone sucked of
syrup lacking sweetness
Captive in slumber like a childrenÕs tale
waiting not for a prince but for
poison to drain in springs veins is
to drip into new liquid forms
*A conspicuous feature or characteristic.
