I sit in a chair
that melts to nothing
beneath me. I close my eyes
because she says I can
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of Blues, singing to wharf rats
in heartful plenty and lonely
dogs down avenues. Empty
tumblewed streets
in dusted sunflower hues
the parched mouth yearns for release.
A deluge of drops from grey-spot skies
while embers warm a book of Keats.
Tobaccoed leather mists and grandpa
sighs at the crunch of falling bough
a crisp northerly blows scent of pies,
and cawing crow flies on the prow.
Normal colors lack specificity,
So comes the time the blind man vowed:
Can't you see, the colors that can't be?