Saturday, 14 January 2012

Twilight Bed

Burnt orange blossom,
An image of autumnal desire.
What colour! What form!
Here it lies placid on the twilight bed.

Fragrance of forgotten days, odour of
a day about to cry.
Come, find a word - a broken word for the bloom
Throw it to the hungry crow;
And see its beak glisten with orange pity,
Mourning the slow death of an asthmatic sun(?)