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(?)