There is a large box in the custodian's office in the elementary school where I work. It is labeled "for lizards only." It has never been used to catch a lizard. Or anything else, fo ... [+]
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?