The World Eclipsed Me – 3

words by barbara doduk


3.

and

melancholy flowers droop

vase edges

stuck on empty ledges

flowered

over bloom

the pedals weep

and bleed gloom

brown patch

purple glow of perfume stench

killed by love

and loving to be dead

in all the lies he said

and

winter washing in

over snow bleak bitter clouds

after the autumn rush

drags long way down

splinter needs

aspirations gleam

in Frosty’s coal eyes

carrot cake code

over the Grinch’s green grin of hate

kills me

eats at me

and

April springs new a rose

and love spreads

take another piece of me

over and fried

saturated in the sinking sickness

known

and unknown

puzzled over pieces not fitting

pictures

plod

questions quizzical

ramble

rustle

around my mind

and

embryo egg

hatching

new horizons

blue colliding kaleidoscope

dreams swirl over

the red simple

mislead tangle

dizzying ride

fantastic world of drug love

covering clover

grass grazing lows

high hills over the yellow valley parades below

and

there’s no light tunnelled in dark hallow ends

meeting the colossal universal worm hole

inside

outside

the timbers fall

crack

groan

mowed down

denim Jean flightless bird

patched blanket

tumble in the seeds

and

it lasts ever into dreams

flashing images

tattooed little memories

etched in flesh ink

black ribbon

like sun spot blindness

eclipsing me

leaving me alone

free

unrestrained

with the ends left loose

never spoken a good-bye,