A cross. A crossroads. 
The desire to erupt.
If the world were red and brown—
If. Jarr
it open.
Resist and grind.

The clouds were piped
by God. Onto the sky.
To forget the tombstones—
To remember the tomb.
Round it out and fluff.
Depress into the ground, 
fellow bush.

Mountains in Stone, Marsden Hartley, 1931

Squeeze the spire.
Steal it of breath.
And then hear it gasp.
Pull the green
over its head.

Uprights, Mars, Violet and Blue, Arthur Dove, 1946

The purple desire. 
A vortex of lust.
If the clam were to shut
on the fingers of a plate,
then what is the pearl? A rooster?
A blue embrace.

The plates are traps.