Between Worlds
Free verse symbolist poetry
Old grief, wrung out on the clothesline, rotting in the morning light. Shadows peeling on the grassy lawn. Egg yolk sun cracking open above the pink ridge line. Muted windows bleeding light, the house is on fire— flickering. Orange Black Yellow Red Red mouth Black throat Choking on the silent dawn. Cracked plaster—melting, mouths collapsing, soot crawling. Smiling faces hollowed out in wall photos. Porcelain plates— white grenades. Blistered cracking skin. Gray holding pain. The heat is a wave. Charred suburban decay a blue mirror glinting. One world ending— one expanding.