Butterfly Pea Flowers Paint My Mouth Blue
So What Paints the Sky?
Bossa Nova. An aurora borealis in the sky.
Magnolia soup streaming out my mouth.
The hawthorns between my teeth with
all the string theory knotting together. YELLOW.
My YELLOW cat eyes searching for some Alice.
Sensations trickle with kinesthetic crinkles
as the LILAC-infused and encrusted bubbles
wander and wander and wander into the NEON GREEN
lights that shimmer and shake and wave above
this little wooden raft, this little raft buzzing
along the Alaskan shore with its snowy score.
Magnolia soup dripping out my mouth: butterfly
pea flowers paint my mouth BLUE. So what
paints the sky?
.
Could I have a stick of bubble gum,
the metamorphosis gum? I want some
as we shatter into a million pieces, when we die
shimmering, shimmering
with creative ecstasy. Drain it down with a cup
of pine mushroom tea. Let the cold enter my veins:
hypothermia to stitch me together. Little crystals
snow in the hinterland. I started walking. No chemical
to keep me contained. BLACK the sky, BLACK
the canvas for the Bossa Nova aurora borealis.
.
Did you know, did you know Lucifer
was the light-bringer, one of the two names
for Venus? That people thought Venus was
two stars? Phosphoros (light-bringer) and
Heosphoros (dawn-bringer), the Greek names.
Lucifer was the fabled son of Aurora.
A name, Lucifer, first in Roman lore.
About the Creator
Andrea Lawrence
Freelance writer. Undergrad in Digital Film and Mass Media. Master's in English Creative Writing. Spent six years working as a journalist. Owns one dog and two cats.
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