Andy Warhol Flower Collection

1. Bleeding colors

Phantoms

Shapes

Outline

Layered in

Colliding shadows

And churning

After images

Like when you

Blink – the red on

The backs of your eyes.

2. Blown out

Radiating figures

That seem to

Shift as if the

Wind was

Reaching through

Ink and page

Trembling purple

And green

Blades of grass

Which we assume

Holds up their heavy heads.

3. There’s a face -

A vacuous face with

Orange-bridged

Nose – a smattering

Of where lips should

Be and two blue,

Holes where eyes

Should be – churning

In the undergrowth

Faces – flashbacks

Of the fading color

Resumed in fat,

Dangling heads.

4. A vacuum

Eyes are the centers

Peeking out

Resolutely -

What’s beyond

The fat, wet petals.

5. Blurry after images

They fall

They all do

A heavy, sloughing gravity

Between the dawn

Tickling strands

Of sunlight

To the bowing

Of nightfall

6. Nuclear

Winter

Radiated – yellow

Hiccupping

Blown out -

We make

Shadows in

The blinding aftermath -

They peel

Out of dirt

Plucked by

God’s fingers

Hurled, roof

Base and all

To rot in the bleeding sun.

7. Hysteric

Pink blooms

Radiating sameness

Stitched over a

Field of

Darkened blades

Of grass.

8. An echoing

Hysterectomy

The censored close up

Of Fried Green Tomato’s

Naughty bits -

Mirror clenched between knees

Judy Chicago’s

Furry, pissed off vagina

Two yellow slivers

A blinding red sore

On a dripping

Purple of

Eve’s curse.

9. Yellow yellow

Fallow fallow

Petals curl

Like forced

Smiles

Broken teeth

Ham-fisted wiles -

Stems shaking in

Acidic soil

Quaking aching

Quivering turmoil

Seeds succulent

Ripen and fall

Like another’s

Sin

Cursing us all.

10. Pink

Pink

Yellow purple

Hell’s bells

Purple nurple

Christening willies

And luscious won’ts

Sing pretty

Between dos and don’ts.