Yellow Over Blue

Yellow and Blue Mark Rothko Print
Yellow is the saddest color, she said.
Some think it is blue, but it is not.
Blue is the common choice for the color of sad, the popular one, but yellow is much sadder than blue.
Yellow blinds you with hurt, a gentle deadly glare, almost musical, that gets in and behind your eyes;
it is the palsied hum in your head that never ever stops, a low insistent droning;
it is the slow death of bees, the shadows of their agony and grace;
the screams at the bottom of a childhood,
the hidden tonsils of a well, those too are yellow;
it is the season of suicidal leaves, consigning themselves to the cradle of Wind, which becomes their fated pallbearer.
Yellow infects the necessary dark; it is by far the saddest moon,
the softest of last kisses.

 

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David Lynch & Agnes Obel

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What qualifies as an artistic wet dream for me: David Lynch remixing Agnes Obel’s “Fuel to the Fire.” The tune is like mainlining dark chocolate with hints of winter and opium. Listen here.
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Tow

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Is grace
not near grief,
a mirror’s oblique run
of necessary doubles,
how we, with hearts in tow,
to drift and slow bleed,
ask of tides
a lone dock
among so much sea.
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Pucker

1930s

Lust,
the secret lives
of blood-engorged hands
parting cellular veils
to court a lasting pucker.
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Ink

woman and child
Devotion,
the day you ink
small miracles
in a palm
not your own.
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Slow-Dancing for Beginners

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It is not about holding her perfect,
just so, in a prescribed manner,
but rather, can you slowpour your breath
into one another’s hips
and clefts while swaying?
It is the mutual pressing
of scars together, a controlled
friction that teaches your hidden
wounds to sing, raising
the pitch of tenderpink
to soprano, exploding shells
of outworn scabs
until the cadence is one of
melting. How to begin?
Take her hand,
lock your gaze with hers,
and simply ask: May I have this dance?
Music optional.
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Liason

sudek apple
Adore,
the charmed offspring
of Love’s prickly
liason with Innocence
before it ripens
and falls.
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Endanger

maya deren
Savior,
how we endanger
mirrors without
further reflection.
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Braille

Dust VII
Touch,
how her body
becomes a pulsing
slate of Braille,
your fingers, unfinished,
running on
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Reading/Book-signing in Santa Fe

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Upcoming reading/book-signing for Raking the Dust in Santa Fe (May 21st @ 2pm). Details here.
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