A Poem With Colours Instead of Eyes

poem

this poem is musical metaphor. what i mean is

it's about Philip Glass and Metamorphosis.

this poem has colours instead of eyes. what i mean is 

it's about Maggie Nelson's obsession with blue.

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is there really a man 

whose eyes leak blue?

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this poem listens to the colours of glass. what i mean is 

it's about a solo piano. a series of blue notes.

a discord. a harmony. a flat five. 

a darkness. a story.

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i once heard a man 

read Kafka over Glass

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this poem is repetition insisting. what i mean is

it's about becoming the breath of sound.

this poem is the kindness of cruelty. what i mean is 

it's about monstrous vermin on a precipice of glass.

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this poem is stalactite filled lungs 

transforming voices to ice.

this poem is the repetition of breath 

shattering mosaic eyes.

Stevi-Lee Alver is an Australian writer and tattoo artist. She lives in the middle of Brazil with her wife. She loves bush walks and waterfalls but misses the ocean.

This poem is part of the drains of her mind collection.