I rethink night-fury the black avatar or
listening to colored women: the tears fall while he touches where he never saw
a tear. black market deaths, black animal censorship, or black canvas a-color—into
days as they blur while color became a ballerina. those tiles in us those
mosaic windows or evenings seated at church: begging for clarity pleading to disappear
or returning to something like suffocation. the afflatus in us those roses
bleeding another’s identity. to take it as ours to starch our hearts to iron our
morality: the excuse for treason against a beautiful reflection where life
became a-pivotal. I could adore with fury or flat consciousness where direction
is enigmatic. the bible flipping pages the window wide open the Spirit roaming
our quarters: by dear faith, by kniphofia flowers, while an urn is moaning.
those eyes in you. those receptive features. or so unbelievable a woman a man
wants. to die with fire to wrap airwaves to bend water. I could ask for
marriage if it meant eternity as never another hand that portal. such a dreamer
such realism where it hurts with flame—the matchbox gift those cranes falling
or being rescued by the jaws of life. so torn from reality so given to reality
while everything is either color or noncolor. the evil black woman so uncured where
her son is estranged: the black fields or those black webs, or better, our
black stirrings. to unlock ice or cause an explosion so near you but driven
away: the black mind the color so inherited while it was great to pretend: a
man as the black mulatto, or the woman that wouldn’t love, while seeing days as
achromatic. the colorless family, as fraught by color, while normality is what
we damn well suggest! so captured by tenderness the beauty in color such fierce
consideration: the black mirror, those black whites, or those white blacks. so
destined to exist or to sing heaven where color seems uncaged by its
demarcations. so aloof to us so crazed in us while seeking solace upon strange
islands. if but to live into black science the courage of the black hawk. by
raven eyes or coal-netted features so extended into the black mystic.
