I’m giving birth to a kaleidoscope of baby blue hopes she’s green gelatin under me breathing cerulean clean like a newborn baby and she’s free
to feed from fire and ice her fingers find distant dips deeper than webbed ligaments dripping pearlescent beads to be placed over her beating brain too many aged grapes the violet light tying her tongue from spilling secrets held together by straw ribbon
Stuffed cheeks of fluffy pink confetti cake the shuffling of young hips lift the veil of cream to brand my face with your bubbling lips
O, belittling eye Beat me blind until I shy divine let’s live within the interior of the tattling tulips who shush each other sweetly Poor petals silk with their speckled sickness it’s sickening to beckon forgiveness
Bronze with wooden eyes and apple cheekbones set high she slips into the figments of my imagination’s creations of her and I I and her humming low damp breath decorating the faces with indigo Her opal fingertip prints mock fossils on the window whose fingertips once tossed rusted coins as a child pennies from nineteen forty eight stained with wishes that may or may not have been cast at all