What does purple sound like?
Not the word, the color
Is the saturation of violets audible?
Why do irises dance in
the off season?
Can you quarantine a carnation?
Tie a river in your hair?
The trees are telling secrets again,
in a language the pavement doesn’t understand,
wind carries them away
like they never existed.
Impressionism has a melody,
Po-Mo a jazz beat.
DaDa is death metal,
Picasso a punk rock symphony
Foie gras and caviar,
toast points with
champagne,
crème brûlée
Is a super-sized Happy Meal
an ecstatic feast?
Nothing is sadder than the interstate.
About the Creator
Harper Lewis
Intrusive rhyme bothers me, except as a weapon.
Intertextuality is my passion.
Formalist/ New Critical are my guiding theories.
My words are mine, not a robot’s.
MA English literature, CofC
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