Nicholas Riley
Forgetting Blue
Doubt came this morning
like a downpour of glass
misfires of refraction, lightness
of blue white black soaked shown
crooked edges of used hepatitis test
diabetes test strips
flat unclear overlapped faceted rain of
refracted and slain past
mnemosyne dropping a bowl of ambrosia
the purple lea tumbles over into an empty city
a mixed blessing of memory
raw as suicide wrists
sweet unbruised fruit coated with
stuck glass dust
the fired banged exhausted memory
falls tired within
those reflective halls
the unfurling storm of
heaven's arms unrolling like
fire hoses
to wash the light in a purple rash
spreading over heaven's back |
