there were golden forests
and skies like seas
feathered magenta sunrise
floating on silver breeze
and under rosy ecstasy
the grass sang
"all is but a dream"
there were boundless scarlet sunsets
spidery grey trees
slender green shadows
yellow sidewalks agleam
and as spindly limbs swung quietly
the grass sang
"all is but a dream"
there were blood orange moons
seeping like molasses through
blackened open wounds
sandy-grey clouds swallow the skies
their toothy gaping mouths smothering cries
and as the sun turns to ash and steam
and dusky fields burn at the seams
the rotting grass hisses
"all was but a dream"
ekphrastic work written about "The Earth is a Man" https://www.artic.edu/artworks/117188/the-earth-is-a-man