Why I love the shadows set across the room
by colored transparencies: I want to be
cellophane, or glass, or blue plastic maps
of galaxies and constellations, as light
peers through your windows and sets
ghosts of night skies against your walls.

A square patch of red, against light blue
alpha centauri outlines- colliding and angular
glass bottles molded into columns, streaking
from the floor to ceiling in all thier colors.

My body is the reflection of the window
I've got on every cell, and if you come closer,
I promise: Inside, I am illuminated
by colors of the sun, passing through you
and into me. I am clear and crystilline.
But this purity has nothing to do
but wait to be lit by sitting next to you:
and then I become a kaleidoscope.

All these colors passing through me
in silence; ask me for the words, or else
I may not bother looking.

-e.




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