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