For a Moment I Saw

When I first looked

I saw sumptuous swirls of colour

so rich and textured it

seemed as if I could

lift  them off the page.

 

Then she said

Do you see?

And I saw

 

I saw scarlet lions playing

on a cobalt blue savannah,

Flame-coloured dolphins

somersaulting in a chartreuse sea.

 

I saw tangerine birds

circling crimson trees

to dive-bomb

chuckling turquoise hyenas.

 

I saw stripy violet monkeys

with saffron tails

and ruby unicorns

racing burgundy zebras

 

I saw the two of us

riding an ebony dragon

Into an indigo sunrise.

 

Do you see? she said

And for a moment I saw.

 

 

 

 

 

(c) Michèle A.L. Barzey 2010

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