Hi Marilyn,
this is a really nice piece of work. Congaratulations.
bw
James
>From: Marilyn Injeyan <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Imbue
>Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2001 16:35:30 EST
>
>Here's a new one: (Hope the lines don't get scrambled in the sending).
>
> Imbue
> a thousand doors ago
> Anne Sexton
>
> If I had the colors
> to catch your heart
> before it hits the pavement,
> I'd repaint scenes
> to draw you back.
>
> Hues would opalesce
> and sapphire from my breath,
> tears turn to turpentine
> blended into linseed oil
> and pigments run wild
> with brushes spread
> upon the canvas of my want.
>
> I'd mellow tones, thin
> impasto to transparencies,
> melt stones into streams,
> illuminate and glaze a pathway
> across our fragility
> and whisper back
> a thousand doors ago.
>
>
> Marilyn Injeyan
> October 28, 2001
>
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