Let There be Color
by Lavinia Kumar
Cover Art by Lavinia Kumar
Copyright © 2015
The Lives You Touch Publications
All rights reserved.
Green Curtains in ICU
Another patient leaves,
curtains are washed,
like rain splashed over dusty leaves,
and rehung on straight branches.
We saw them quickly drawn
past a sleeping young man
wheeled in,
his head bandaged,
two policemen
following closely
to sit by his bed
like poles tied around a sapling.
Curtains around Bill
were only closed
for toiletry,
the deep green
not summer
overlapping leaves,
but dense
to hide those behind.
Bill could finally
see their color
fourteen days after surgery,
in twenty-one he saw
the lace border:
white flowers,
a tropical forest
on top of the green.
Table of Contents
In Due Time
Memory Fractured
Es gibt ein Loch
Glimmers and Lightness
Perhaps To Wake Again
The Sad of Eyes
Cerebrospinal Fluid Drips from Nose
Patience Wanting
Meals come with the Blues
Unending Urns
Up to the Minute
Dad Will See My Face
Body, Let There Be Color
Itinerant Traveler
As Dusk would Fade
We are Like the Dreamer who Dreams
and then Lives in the Dream
Mind Into Eye into Mind
Licensed Practical Nurse
She is Isis. She is Prithvi.
Evening Machine
Daydream of the Gallery
Opto Kinetic Reflex Drum
Tributes, Tributaries
Still the Nightmare at Home
Home Again
That Year
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