Tuesday, January 19, 2016

January 19 -- Sarah Thursday


Colors for Bruising
 
1. Swell: fluids rush in panic, raise the skin
like a flag, damage still unassessed
 
2. Purple: t-shirt logo wearing of pain, most
celebrity, most sympathy for self
 
3. Blue: first layer under, uglier, sign of longer
lasting mark
 
4. Green: usually on the edges only, ghost
sleeping under your skin
 
5. Brown: dead blood vessels dissolving,
novelty gone, even you don't want to look
 
6. Orange: almost gone enough to be rubbed
off with spit and thumb, will it away
 
7. Yellow: untraceable outlines only faith
remembers, sing it a lullaby, let it go undreamt 

Published originally in On the Grid Zine
 

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