Love Poem #1
or: History Revised

You were painting blues
the color of smooth whale fins and
ocean water
the color of azurite, the Israeli flag,
the calm of the summer sky,
reflected moonlight, prayer books,
and half a million other things
that remind me of you.

I was painting yellows,
the color of rounded submarines
and fluid fins of fishes
the color of lemons, leaves in September,
cowardice like the belly of a snake,
blinding sunlight, post-it notes,
and half a million other things
that detail my days.

And so when we finished and wandered,
blinking,
Into the sunlight to wash off our brushes,
Our fingers mixed into green,
the color of seaweed wrapped around tide pools
or resting in the current
the color of spring and tendrils
of sage and snap peas,
displays of jade in Chinatown windows,
pine needles on mountainsides, and
the color like the mixing
of blue and yellow handprints.


Nanotyrannus
4/07/2006
08:11:43 PM