spectrum in being

The rhythm-ness of red:

A one-two tattoo of livelihood

Flows steady through my blood.

A passionate momentous spin,

A burning-gut and gnashing-grin,

The heat of settled-embers

Forms a river-ness of good.

O for orange horizons

And the glitter-gold of sunsets in the west.

O for leaving home

And putting pedal to the metal

To ambition

To the test.

Where origins stretch outward in long / clear / contrasting lines

This excited-invitation seeks to find-out peace of mind.

That so-most envied desert rose - a rare and yellow-flower -

Has grown this queer and winsome trick, of lifting-up life's glowers.

Sun-filled rays float buttered days

In lemon tinted water.

Laughter ringing through the house

Reminds me I’m my mother’s daughter.

I am growing.

Leaning easy into being,

Turning leaves with each new season,

I am running through a -

Standing in a -

Lying flat and looking stemward-up

While all-this

Heady-color grows

Lush. Tall around me.

My place-hood is a sense I carry with me,

And it’s green.

Joy is flat and wide.

A sharp-sweet-biting cold

Stretched out across the January sky.

Memory holds swallow-fulls of water in its mouth.

The feathered hum of birdsong

Dipping in-out and around

Two true and fluid

River-bound embankments.

Blue can be a secret that both dances and keeps very, very still.

Indigo comes twice a day, with twilight.

Both dawn and dusk will bring this color to me.

It will bait-breath with possibility,

Then loose a sigh all-saturate with labor from the day.

To rise-then-rest, to stretch-and-fall,

Like bookends to the turning of the world;

This pattern is a quality of light.

If history was just one hue

It would be violet.

A dense-unpacking

Purpled-past.

That

So-persistent-violence.

The plumped-up hush

Of all-mixed-up

Unfolding, like an iris.

This spectrum of existence

Hangs on atmosphere and distance.

Perspective is reflected and refracted

And dispersed by dropping water

To stand directly opposite the sun.

To live as if life-loving were a rainbow:

Color made of stance, and sight, and rain.