Electron
Who housed you
here, sweet fix of smoke
Bells, warning flies
held & moled
Paraglid amid
cages. You tab
The slip, & I
Flash silhouettes
of burnt
Tree, anemone. Blue
& red bloom.
Color me, lip the lumined
structure: how
You live where you live.
Karen Lepri
Chicago Review Winter 2012
Copyright © 2012 by Karen Lepri
All rights reserved.
Reproduced by Poetry Daily with permission