What You See When You Close Your Eyes
Depends upon the day.
__Sometimes it is the darkness of eyelids
__Sometimes it is the orange brightness
____of eyelids, or the red-heat glow
____of tired eyes.
But sometimes
it is the cobalt-verdigris sea, shifting
as you look.
___________Or the span of space
in the broken road crashing out
into the deep-blue air, deafening
in the difference.
________________Or the chain
of clouds that is the sky's
reflection of the crescent
curve of the tropical chain.
[cayo hueso?]
After:
What You See When You Close Your Eyes
Depends upon the day--
darkness of eyelids
orange brightness
red-heat glow of tired eyes
the cobalt-verdegris sea, shifting
the span of space
in the broken road
crashing out into
the deep-blue air
or a chain
of clouds--
the sky's
reflection of the crescent
curve of the tropical chain.
Beautiful!
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