purple is the sixth colour
on my iris print
soaking into the background
stabbing at the blueness in the petals
the ink with too much red
and not enough white
as the rain smashes the summer
helping to create the wet transition
to something the Europeans call
autumn
autumn
These irises are gorgeous.
ReplyDeleteit's been fantastic to see this progress. And there's something elegaic about the text
ReplyDeletemight be only one poem
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