when eyes look away
Posted: December 29th, 2009, 5:32 pm
landscape secrets inspire the best
color mixes nature into a batch of
impossible vibrancy unlike the palette
of pain Joanne chooses from
sure trees and skies shed sometimes
but not tears for her, she cannot
see the daily encore performances
that occur in spite of her artless state
of mind, her clockwork orange lip-gloss
she lifts not even a puny pinkie ring
to forge new trails, to espy the birds
of paradise that still the meadows
content to wallow about in black and white
mostly all black, to tell the truth, these days
I say, gee isn't it gorgeous here in the countryside
she says, looks just like yesterday to me
color mixes nature into a batch of
impossible vibrancy unlike the palette
of pain Joanne chooses from
sure trees and skies shed sometimes
but not tears for her, she cannot
see the daily encore performances
that occur in spite of her artless state
of mind, her clockwork orange lip-gloss
she lifts not even a puny pinkie ring
to forge new trails, to espy the birds
of paradise that still the meadows
content to wallow about in black and white
mostly all black, to tell the truth, these days
I say, gee isn't it gorgeous here in the countryside
she says, looks just like yesterday to me