for Night/Day ... Day/Night by Beryl Goering
Indigo invades the air,
shards the beams’ radar blips —
feral sprints atop jagged cliffs
spiking flushed welts rising
willfully from startled flesh.
Heart (blandly pale) blinks treacle,
stumbles copper,
glimpses patches of glowing green
beat-propelled to worry-me-blue
rhythms sharp, unyielding.
Inky indigo, ebony close behind
thump-clump
till there’s only perspective,
this fevered microcosm beneath the edge,
azure bisecting white sea.
It know you know it there.
Bubbling inside the downward slide
the crystal voice is drowning
as uneven pulse-peaks yellow,
orange, navy away
from opalescent balm
throbbing oracular.