I Dream In Colour

I dream   of fire-pits
flames the colour blue
yellows licking at my spine
Rose-coloured glasses
smashed   in grey rejection
A mustard-orange pain
burning

Bright reds   dark reds
blood reds...red blood
spilling in my dream
filling hands   buckets   rooms
Blood red rooms
dripping

I dream   of hospitals
white uniforms
green garbage bags of death
Colours fading
brown earth
brown earthworms eating

Black

* "I Dream In Colour" was originally published in Poetry Halifax Dartmouth No. 27

Close Cover Before Striking

Your touch awakes me
Tempts me
to shed my slumber-skin
Your teasing fingers dance
like flames   upon my spine
I feel the heat of body
pressing   into body
Yet wrap my arms around you
like a moth   drawn
to a fiery death

Your whispered words of love
mesmerize
Entice me to ignore
the acrid smell   of burning wings
Forgetting match-book cover wisdom
I melt
into your fire

The scent   of After Shave
hangs heavy in the air
like smoke

* "Close Cover Before Striking" was originally published in Poetry Halifax Dartmouth No. 27

You...Do Not Know Me

mirrors   do not know me
I am not   round face
nearsighted   weak chin   small
breasts   stomach stretched   from
bearing children
dimpled thighs   kneecap
missing   grey hair mingled
with the brown   more grey
than brown

close friends   do not know me
I am not   good wife
good mother   swimming
with the tide   sitting
on the fence   always ready
to make brownies    for their
bake sales

you   do not know me
you find me   shy   an
introvert   never tasting
chunks of Life larger   than
a woman's share   you
do not know me
inside   I dance
naked   in the North wind
catch bullets   with
my teeth   walk wires
high   above an open fire

*  "You   Do Not Know Me" was originally published in The Pottersfield Portfolio Volume 9