Suspended in space
Your blue-bruised brow
Frowns over hemlock boughs
Cloven clouds seep through your seams
While I watch you glide upon the day:
See you swim above the hills,
Chameleoned into
Mourning gray, citrus blossom, peppermint.
I spear your rainbow colors,
Bounce them back upon the water
Scribble into my book
If you could stop and I could paint
You'd drift forever upon my canvassed hills
But you are too clever and too quick
For me to catch you here
Twilight takes you,
Swirls a fiery dance
You fling Cold and Dark again
Spit a stubborn protest .
Wriggling from my fingers
You drip into the river
I would keep you
But you're not mine
So I set my face unto Tomorrow
And wait for you to rise.
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