Let There be Color
by Lavinia Kumar
Cover Art by Lavinia Kumar
Copyright © 2015
The Lives You Touch Publications
All rights reserved.
Stat!
The quiet voice
rises over the sea
of white sheets,
in anger.
His beard, his fear
shout a storm
of red
over his Dad,
his love
on high flash
of tooth and claw,
his deep tracks
gouging
the pre-op murmurs
outside
the O.R. door,
his father’s
surgeons
in sudden
notice
their patient
is a family man
not the number
at the end of a bed.
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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