purple lilacs perfume
this clinical purity
with a syrupy air

brown leather straps,
prisoner in a white sea,
silver bed pan
ready for escape

purple, brown,
silver and white,
pretenders to reality,
clamps of life

� now the Oedipal
jolt of electric love,
riveting spinal fluid
to its niche,
infinite caps of white sea
constrict anew as room.


�2005 by Craig Kirchner